Uri Guttman <uri@perlhunter.com> writes: > why are you escaping the {}?? those are meta chars that are needed to make > that a 5+ range. just delete the backslashes on them and it will work. First, thank you but read on, please. I couldn't agree more. That should do it but when I don't escape them, I get: Nested quantifiers in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m//^\d+{ <-- HERE 3,}// at ./regex line 10. I thought it was odd at the time because old code snippets I have here plus examples I read on line all show un escaped meta characters. MartinThread Previous | Thread Next