1- I thought the s modifier treated the string as one line. Am I reading the meaning of that wrong?
2 - oh, cool...thanks. That's one of those cases where I start writing a regex, and tweak it repeatedly until it works...but then since, by some miracle, it does work I am reluctant to tweak it further :)
3- yea - I wrote that line to see if I could knowing I might need it a little later.
4- I've seen that form before, but I'm gonna try to figure out how to implement it. I have a map statement example here in one of my books that kinda is making sense to me. I'll give it a try.