Kay, > As I said, the problem was: </ > needed to be: a \ backslash delimiting the / forward slash.
Really? Mind you trying this simple one which works here and without any backslash! on mouseUp put "rtyrtyyrtyryt <H>dfdfddfdfdfdf </H> qwewqwqe" into T put "<(?P<tag>[A-Z])[^>]*>(.*?)</(?P=tag)>" into RX if matchText( T, RX, theTag, theText) then put "Found: tag: " & theTag & ", theText: " & theText else put "not found" end if end mouseUp Could you show me in the regular expression docs why do we have to escape a slash? I would be very much interested to have a small stack with the code and the datas as I'm collecting snippets for a day to make some HowTos.. Kind regards, Thierry _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode