It's nearly Christmas and Martin Spernau just found a bug in the PCRE part of rex: basically, gmatch didn't work. It was a simple typo, so I've fixed it, and the new release, 15, of my Lua C libraries is now available at http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/Lua Merry Christmas. -- http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/ Reality is what refuses to disappear when you stop believing in it (Dick)