I had thought I had given a 'pure' regex approach (for what its worth) that satisfied your original request, one that can easily be adjusted for the terminal-dot versus no-terminal-dot alternatives, which of these you require being a point I still do not quite grasp. Your response to kcott's reply below indicates you are satisfied with the code you have now, so I will not comment further along these lines.

However, I would encourage you to become familiar with regular expression techniques and be wildered no more! In addition to the valuable links given by others in this thread, I have found Jeffrey Friedl's (admittedly rather expensive) book Mastering Regular Expressions to be very helpful; see his site.

Update: Or perhaps I should have said "be less wildered", for even though I've been using and studying regexes a long time now, I still regularly trip over them and fall flat on my face! But hang in there and enlightenment will come.

In reply to Re^4: I think regex Should Help Here... but How!? by AnomalousMonk
in thread I think regex Should Help Here... but How!? by ozboomer

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