Defleaing a cat with old tactical nukes would seem a little daft(as we say in Yorkshire). Regular expressions do seem to be very...long-winded and difficult, after looking briefly into parse-trees.

Reinventing nukes and cyanide aside, I'm stuck with this approach for my project, so I'll just have to demonstrate
the limitations of regexps for this kind of work. Tom Cristiansen's article was informative, and showed me how limited my approach is.

Still, thanks for the help. Always appreciated.
T