Very glad you found the solution; congratulations.

For more info on how that works, search this site for 'teddy bear'.

Also note that simply using your local text editor to write out the question (complete with code example and PM-approved tags) will often produce the 'teddy bear effect,' without any need to actually post it.

That course will excuse you from having to apologize in advance: (" I seem to get real close. But for some reason, I'm missing a piece of the puzzle, I think. This is probably (should be) simple.")

If I've misconstrued your question or the logic needed to answer it, I offer my apologies to all those electrons which were inconvenienced by the creation of this post.

In reply to Re^2: All attempts to match data from input fail. Please help. [SOLVED] by ww
in thread All attempts to match data from input fail. Please help. by taint

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