In <efmgtt$q1m$1 at mlucom4.urz.uni-halle.de>, Mirco Wahab wrote: > I fail to see the benefit of a re-object, I consider these to > be just there because regexes aren't in the core language. One benefit is that it's an object. You can stuff it into a dictionary or give it as argument to a function. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch