Thank you so much. Actually I started reading the Llama book although I am not a frequent user of Perl. However, I anticipate I will be using regular expression a lot in future. Speaking of regular expression, how can I match ampersand in a character set? I was trying to match "DESIGN & PLAN:" or "DESIGN/PLAN:" or "DESIGN PLAN" with [A-Z &\/]+[:|;] but this doesnot match the first variation. I have thousands of "titles" that are all in upper case and may consist of one or more words that may end in ":" or ";" It seems matching special characters in a character set is different and basically everything except "-" as in A-Z is treated as non-special character but for some reason it does not match "&" in my regex. Thanks again for all the hints.

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