I have strings such as the following: .INSERT,SCREW THREAD..............
I need the leading dots but not the trailing. As you see it has commas and spaces in it so the traditional \w doesn't work. the .* doesn't work as it picks up the trailing dots. The result I want back is: .INSERT,SCREW THREAD I have tried pulling the entire thing off using \S+ and then doing this: (it still doesn't work) I thought it would anchor at the end and pull of one or more of the trailing dots and then assign the rest of the field to the left to $1. Also, the string does not always have leading dots but if it does I must have them. Thanks a bunch, DeeDee Messersmith Specialist -Programmer/Analyst Alliance Solutions Falcon Jet - Little Rock (ILS) 903-624-1355 cell 903-464-9064 fax
