I've got the book Nikolai, and tonight after the office closes my goal is to dive into your code and Robert's code and find out why. Your knowledge on this amazes me! Zach -----Original Message----- From: Nikolai Weibull [mailto:ruby-talk / pcppopper.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 4:55 PM To: ruby-talk ML Subject: Re: regex help * Robert Klemme <bob.news / gmx.net> [Jan, 20 2004 21:50]: > Doesn't look so much different. Any ideas or enlightening comments from > the aforementioned book? 'my' version avoids a lot of unnecessary backtracking under certain conditions. I can't really delve into it further, but if you haven't got the book, its really worth buying. It's really very entertaining and full of good knowledge. nikolai -- ::: name: Nikolai Weibull :: aliases: pcp / lone-star / aka ::: ::: born: Chicago, IL USA :: loc atm: Gothenburg, Sweden ::: ::: page: www.pcppopper.org :: fun atm: gf,lps,ruby,lisp,war3 ::: main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}