Subj : test To : Mike Miller From : Russell Tiedt Date : Tue May 18 2004 09:33 pm Hello Mike. 16 May 04 09:28, you wrote to me: RT>> Thanks, well from what I understand, substantial parts of the RT>> wheel are already available under perl, whereas if those parts RT>> are practical using php, I'll have to totally re-invent the wheel RT>> using php alone. RT>> In one perl "tutorial" aimed at persons with a bit more RT>> programming experience than I have, the claim is you can learn RT>> perl in 10 minutes, regular expressions that are used in perl RT>> take a heck of a lot longer. MM> the Perl layout is simple, but lines like this: MM> while ($propstring =~ s/^\s*\((\S+)(?: "([^"]+)")?\)//) MM> get a bit confusing from time-to-time :) Hmmm .... so do a lot of other "items" Russell --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.4.7 * Origin: Rusty's BBS - Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa (5:7105/1) .