I've rewritten the regex with your help, thank you much. As for the missing tilde, that was just tired idiocy. My next question again deals with special characters in general.

Why is there such a performance penalty for using them? Is it appreciable at all in a script which is only 5 or so lines (If you didn't figure it out, the above was just to get the songname of whatever's in XMMS, using xwindow -root -all | grep XMMS_Window.)? Without doing it stupidly (like mine above) or with ubercomplex regex (semi- is fine, I'm still learning) is there a way to get "from the beginning until char"? Muchos Gracias.

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