"Meir Yanovich" schreef: > [^+\s*]
That is a character class, not containing "+", whitespace and "*". A character class is matching a single character. Is that what you meant by it? It will match the comma that you have in front of the opening dquotes, so that gets removed. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>