Hi Monks, I was thinking of creating a function. This function would take in any number of elements from an array and return the largest text that matches all of these elements in the array. In addition, it should also return the left over text that wasn't match. Ie say , @a = ('#$@abc_*^*9' , '*@#$)*ab_(A' , ';lkjnzxcvab'); so i guess ab would be the return value. Any ideas to make this happen and make it simple?