Firstmate, if my post appears to be ignorant or disparaging (at least to you), I apologize. But my main aim is to tell people to like regex. For your info, I'm still learning about regex, and I know I won't be good at mastering it. Learning is a long, winding road that it's never enough. Again, I'm not trying to get people withdrawn from using other methods, identifiers, or commands made available to simulate regex. They're also good for scripting purposes but will come in a limitation as Hawkee suggested, hence not universal.