Simon Strandgaard <neoneye / gmail.com> writes: > palindrome = Regexp.new(<<'EOPALIN') > (?x)(?i)\b > (?:(\S) (?:\s|\p)* > (?:\S|(\S) (?:\s|\p)* > (?:\S|(\S) (?:\s|\p)* > (?:\S|(\S) (?:\s|\p)* > \4)? (?:\s|\p)* > \3)? (?:\s|\p)* > \2)? (?:\s|\p)* > \1) > \b > EOPALIN > > p "Win a Toyota blah".match(palindrome).to_s > p "Why Abba rocks?".match(palindrome).to_s > p "A Mismatch".match(palindrome).to_s And what if I have a palindrome longer than eight chars? -- Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen / gmail.com> http://chneukirchen.org