On Oct 29, 2005, at 8:04 PM, Peter Vanbroekhoven wrote: > I'm not pretending to be a regexp guru, but nonetheless: > > scan moves forward one character even if the portion of the string > that it > matched has length 0. I am aware of the infamous "bump-along", but doesn't 0 + 1 == 1? I expected that to put it on the comma, which would work just fine. James Edward Gray II