jwz> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll jwz> use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems.
dbl> So as a newbie, I have to ask.... So I guess I don't really dbl> understand why they are a "bad idea" to use. Regular expressions are fine in their place, however, you can get carried away. For example: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/Mail-RFC822-Address.html Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list