On Sunday 30 April 2006 04:41 pm, Linas ?virblis wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > Understood, but I am doing a regex on text units which span more than one > > line. Trying to process this text w' line-by-line io would be possible > > but, as far as I can see, very awkward. > > What about streams then? please tell me how that would work? i'm not familiar with the mechanism. thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca