"Erik Max Francis" <max at alcyone.com> wrote in message: news:3E6324D2.7E76BCB1 at alcyone.com... > > > > 'Course: 23,95' - matches '23,95' > > '$1 = 23,95 y' - matches '23,95'. > > Why not a regular expression simply like [including both commas and > periods]: > > =.*([0-9,.]+) > This re matches the second example, but it doesn't match the first one. Sorry