i found out what was happening. i was using: "\|" as the or but "\" is also an escape character so i needed "\\|" as an OR. -- Gerardo S. Rojas mailto: grojas@strategicinc.com -----Original Message----- From: Ignatius Reilly [mailto:ignatius.reilly@free.fr] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:36 AM To: Gerardo Rojas; php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Re: Regular expressions What do you want to replace a match with? _________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerardo Rojas" <grojas@strategicinc.com> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 18:16 Subject: Regular expressions I have 2 regular expressions that work correctly. How do i combine them to work as 1 or 2 1: /^\d\{1,2}\. 2: /^\s\d\{1,2}\. i want to replace any matching pattern with either regular expression. It would be nice if i could put this in a single command. Currently i have this mapped to a Function Key "F2" -- Gerardo S. Rojas mailto: grojas@strategicinc.com -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php