Sheesh. That's what I get for posting code too quickly. Fortunately, this hasn't caused a problem as I have used exclamation points as delimiters (and avoided the problem with the slashes) and the dot metacharacters match the actual dot characters. I got lucky! Thanks for pointing that out.

This has actually caused me a problem with the $match variable as this will often contain characters that will have special meaning in a regex, but I can't simply wrap them in \Q and \E because of the problems with $ and @, so I'm going to write a short snippet that will handle that substitution for me, but this is turning out to be just a more difficult problem than I imagined!

Cheers,
Ovid