Firstly, I would like to thank those that offered help. I was able to get my data into the database and also have connectivity with the mysql and can pull the data in/out at will. Hooray and thanks again.
Secondly, perhaps I overstated my abilities. I have written a couple of websites from scratch that pull data in/out of databases and have formatted their outputs for user consumption. I am by no means a php expert and have never had occasion to use regular expressions for the type of data I've been manipulating. My sarcastic reply was only in response to the 'go google it' answer I received to what I thought was a fair question. It's usually easiest to google something if you know what you are looking for. At no point did I expect anyone to spend a great deal of time working out my specific problem but I am most grateful for those who did provide more than what could have been expected. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
