Re: [Serusers] search string, circumflex

The string is a regular expression. You can find out more about them online (eg: http://sitescooper.org/tao_regexps.html ), or by typing man 7 regex at the command line. "(Contact|m)" means 'either the word "Contact" or the word "m"'. A caret ^ at the beginning of the regular expression means "only match if the following string is at the beginning of the line" -- so the first expression would match Contact: che.sosa(a)192.168.0.1 but would not match I wish to Contact: che.sosa(a)192.168.0.1 Have fun, Paul -- P-a-u-l- -J-a-n-k-o-w-s-k-i paul(a)teragen.com.au "A programmer," he said with obvious amazement, is the sort of person "who drinks Coke in the morning." -- Boston Globe article on The High Tech Set