Emmanuel wrote: >> I have a regex question, using the Satimage osax. >> >> I am trying to ignore lines that end with the following: >> >> \tAAA\t > > With Satimage osax, I'm afraid your hack is the good solution. > > In Smile, you have look-ahead and look-behind assertions, so you can > write like: > > ufind text "(?<!\\tAAA)\\t" etc. Yep, a negative lookbehind assertion is the best way to go, though they're the sort of feature that only appear in more advanced regular expression engines. Smile is one such option; another is TextCommands <http://osaxen.com/files/textcommands1.1.2.html>; a third is to call Perl via 'do shell script'. HTH has -- http://appscript.sourceforge.net http://rb-appscript.rubyforge.org http://appscript.sourceforge.net/objc-appscript.html