On 28/09/15 18:45, Ryan Pallas wrote: > More specifically, since in e mode you're using the \\1 sub-pattern > callback, you'll want to {$match[1]} in the string. Thanks for that poke ... just what I needed. It' all very well stripping things out of the manual, but one needs to know how things used to work in order to replace them. I've found a couple of threads which have a nice explanation, and the quote "I still don't understand how it works, but it does." seems about right :) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php