"I'm going to try to do it the way everyone is recommending..."
Good!

My arms get terribly tired, beating people over the head.

"I'm just not sure I have the ability to do it that way...yet."

And when you have a problem -- trying to do it the right way -- why, that's why we're here. If you get stuck on some particular point (and have read the docs, etc.) post some code illustrating where you are, sample data and output, and errors from your code, if any.

Helping folk at that point is far more gratifying than beati ^H^H^H^H^H, posting a picket line around their --- uh, applying verbal persuasion.

In reply to Re^5: regexp over multiple lines by ww
in thread regexp over multiple lines by liverpaul

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