No matter what I try, on my FC1 system or on my university's unix sytem, I can NOT figure out how to use a regex to search for multiple spaces -- for example at least 2 but no more than 3; or 2 or more (no max). Yes, I've read the man pages (on both systems). Yes I've read my class notes (I'm taking a C course that also has unix info). No example I've found actually works. The only way I can ever search for and find spaces is if I *explicitly* search for an explicity number of them (i.e. if I press the space bar 3 times, I can search for 3 spaces, but no other number of spaces will be found). I *want* to be able to search for variable numbers of spaces *with* certain characters before and/or after the variable number of spaces. What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to use grep and it just won't work. :-( -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
