Yes Thomas, if i chose to open the source and recode the parser, i could walk down that road.

However my situation is more like (as pointed out by eyepopslikeamosquito above) the Perl Cookbok 6.18 :

"...
So you need to write a single pattern that matches either of two diffe
+rent patterns (the "or" case) or both of two patterns (the "and" case
+) or that reverses the sense of the match ("not").
This situation arises often in configuration files, web forms, or comm
+and-line arguments.
..."
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So with that i do consider my problem solved, -- even though as it's written in the recipe :

...It's not a pretty picture, and in a regular program, you'd almost n
+ever do this"...
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Sic!

Best Regards / Allan Dystrup

"...this very place is the Land of Lotuses..." / Hakuin Ekaku Zenji
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