>>>>> "S" == Stefan Mueller <flcl / gmx.net> writes: S> I'm having some big problems with Pattern Matching of Regex. Like have said Dave Thomas, your regexp is wrong but S> I don't want the Regex to magically match a String it can't match, but You have (?>...) for this. S> would like to prevent it from trying forever, as I'm doing this with a S> big html file in a String. Sometimes regexp are not the *right* tool and you are in this case. Never try to match an HTML file with a regexp, because HTML is *really* complex. It's best to use a specialized parser for this. Guy Decoux