I am learning regexs myself so you should use my code as an idea rather than as something that's going to work :)

I would write something like  m/[*(.*)*]+ $1/g; I *think* that is saying, match *, any character any number of times, * and it stores that into $1. I through the brackets in there because my original code was *(.*)* + $1/g; which doesn't look like the correct syntax.

Anywhere, use this as an idea because I'm sure it doesn't work. Hope this helps!

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sulfericacid

In reply to Re: Another regex needed by sulfericacid
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