Hi Jonathan, On 14/12/11 10:38, Jonathan Lewis wrote: > > I think Tanel Poder wrote a blog note some time ago about the way Oracle > tokenizes text incrementally ... > Excellent, thanks. I've updated my own blog with a link to Tanel's. It seems the Oracle parser/lexer does some weird stuff then. :-) For certain values of weird that is. Cheers, Norm. -- Norman Dunbar Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd Registered address: Thorpe House 61 Richardshaw Lane Pudsey West Yorkshire United Kingdom LS28 7EL Company Number: 05132767 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l