Hello, I am trying to create a regular expression with the following rule: my text is: <TEXT id=''>blabla</TEXT> I want to replace <TEXT*> with something "<TEXT id=''>".gsub(/the magic regular expression/,"replacement") ==> replacementblabla</TEXT> but i want also that "<TEXT>blabla</TEXT>".gsub(/the magic regular expression/,"replacement") returns the same result ==> replacementblabla</TEXT> and <TEXT *anything*>blabla</TEXT>".gsub(/the magic regular expression/,"replacement") returns the same result ==> replacementblabla</TEXT> Can you help me ? Thank you. Gunther -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.