"Stevie_mac" <no.email at please.com> wrote in message news:c5epc8$1scu$1 at news.wplus.net... > Heres my solution... If I did not feel like looking up how to do the split with regular expressions, as others have suggested, I would scan the string in reverse with 'for i in range(len(s)-1, -1, -1)' instead of reversing the string. Then slice. tjr