Can anyone tell me how I can force the following regexp match *only* concatenated 
substrings *not* the individual substrings as well as the concatenated ones!?  
From my understanding, once the whole regexp is in parentheses it should match each 
individual substring  together as a concatenated string - any ideas?
For example, this regexp matches a bunch of smileys fine but it also highlights 
strings like ':', ';', 'D', 'P', etc. on their own. 


color body brightyellow black "([:;]+[-^~]?((\)\))|(\(\()|[][)(><}{|/DP]){1})"


-Ross

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