On Monday 10 April 2006 11:14, Jayesh Nambiar wrote: If you want to match the star (*) you need to escape it: "^sip:\*86[0-9]*@". Your regex was: "match 'sip' at the beginning of a line, and then zero or more colons, followed by '86', zero or more numbers and then an '@'". The problem is the ":*" part which means "zero or more colons" instead of "colon followed by a star". -- Marc Haisenko Comdasys AG Rüdesheimer Straße 7 D-80686 München Tel:   +49 (0)89 - 548 43 33 0 Fax:   +49 (0)89 - 548 43 33 29 e-mail: haisenko(a)comdasys.com http://www.comdasys.com