Hi, I replied earlier with the ^-> negated character class. I just noticed your code at top, you might want to consider replacing this: 
if (/\<img src=(???)-disclose.gif(.*)\>/i) {
         $_ = "";

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with this: (note: the improved regex is inserted below) 
lc; #Much more efficient than having the regex do it
s/\<img\s*src\s*=[^->]-disclose.gif[^>]*>//g; 
#more effecient to use a substitution

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Please note that I used the lc function, because having the regex perform case insensitive searching is a lot of overhead, also I changed your $_ = "" to a substition, which is also more effecient. Also, if you had more than one img tag on a line before, the whole line would have been deleted if even one of the tags had the -disclose.gif text in them. Also I changed the end of the regex. Instead of matching the rest of the string with 
(.*)\>

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I used the negated character class ^>. Again, the .* is greedy, so it could have matched other img tags on the same line, for that mater, it could have matced anything on the same line.

The 15 year old, freshman programmer
Stephen Rawls

In reply to Re: Help with reg expressions by srawls
in thread Help with reg expressions by Anonymous Monk

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