Thanks for the idea. It's always good to break out of my assumption that RegEx is the right way and consider something else like Grep.

Unfortunately, this was a free-text field filled by users, so I can't assume they'll give me whitespacea, any other convention or even the results of normal human brain function.

Also, this method is either a little lacking or it's way TOO smart if it knows that rubies are actually red. :)