In article <4190599e4e.Dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Barnett <as10@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Being pedantic, I suppose it could. The extra '(' makes it more > obvious that I have included the essential space, Doesn't the trailing asterisk do that adequately? > and, apart from increasing the file size ;-), does no harm. Except that it only matches ".mx (" when you surely want rid of anything with ".mx " in it. -- Jeremy C B Nicoll, Edinburgh, Scotland - my opinions are my own.