Ross Bamford wrote on 12/14/2005 4:32 PM: >> i need to capture all matches for a group. for example if >> 'ab c' =~ /^(.)*$/ > You could try: a regex tool i'm finding invaluable is "redet" (on freshmeat) works with a number of languages including ruby... -- http://home.cogeco.ca/~tsummerfelt1 telnet://ventedspleen.dyndns.org