>to match one or more, use + instead of *. > >* matches 0 or more, + matches 1 or more. Thanks! >> I have to buy a book on RegEx's and Sed :) > >http://www.gnu.org/manual/gawk/gawk.pdf > >(G)awk is pretty sh!t hot where I work; however we've extended it a >bit. :) So gawk does all that sed does and more? I suppose I can start with that in this case, I always wanted a book on regexe's so I think I am going to order O'Reilly's Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition. They also have a sed & awk, Second Edition book, but its 10+ years old, does that matter, has sed/awk changed any since then? Thanks everyone! jlc