I seem to remember that the non-standard [:ascii:] character class was once supported. Now grep and sed give the error "Invalid character class name". Am I misremembering ? More importantly, is there a way to get it back ? Thanks in advance. -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> Ever heard of the Debian project publishing the email addresses of their users ? No, they don't, they're not that lame.