i think its about time i learned how to do this ;)

can Anyone give me some examples? I know basic stuff like "colou?r" will match color and colour etc, and d for digits/numerical, \[d]\ etc... but as for more complex (to check for such like "#this" in a sentance, or even #* in a sentance) then i dont know..

know any tutorials?? ;

Check out http://www.regular-expressions.info/ - looks reasonable. Only had a quick glance.

Yeah, thanks, i looked at that one, doesnt explain exactly what all the \b []+ etc do
and if you want to match with []{} in a regex, how to delmit/break them etc ;)

What the hell are you on about?