Why regular expression is hard? 1.regular expression is the beauty of the perl. 2.you can impress your friends if you can write one obsfuscated regex. 3.if you can do one regex that works,take it as your masterpiece. 4.it is thrilling and chilling for the beginners,but exciting and tempting if you started on it. Anybody wanna add to the list? :> -vrempire-