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Message: [QUOTE="dblack, post: 4500291"] Hi -- See Xavier's post. My mistake was, essentially, expecting the first " to "know" that it was supposed to match a zero-width condition governing the state one character later. Instead, of course, it asserts itself as a character in its own right; fails to match the first alternate; and does match the second. So [^\s"]+ is indeed probably the best thing. (Other than the appropriate real libraries, of course :-) David -- David A. Black [email]dblack@wobblini.net[/email] "Ruby for Rails", from Manning Publications, coming April 2006! [URL]http://www.manning.com/books/black[/URL] [/QUOTE]