-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 12 June 2001 1:38pm, Tobias Reif wrote: > Hi; > > how can I express the following in a regex: > "all possible characters, including newlines and carriage returns, > but no quotes" Try: ([^"]|\n|\r)* This will match 0 or more characters, including newlines and carriage returns right up until there is a quote. =) - -- Wesley J. Landaker - wjl / mindless.com http://www.landaker.net PGP DSS/DH Key: 0x0F338E07 PGPKey FP: 3AAA 424B B488 198E B68B C0E5 390A BACA 0F33 8E07 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6a (GNU/Linux) Comment: All your base are belong to us. iEYEARECAAYFAjsmc3EACgkQOQq6yg8zjgeFqwCeOWG4dSXPR/qucQyHVdG6dobG OcsAniIFXxFKiF2/aOFfXcIMd09TX5J5 =ztgE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----