https://www.webmaster-forums.net/crss/node/1035601 en https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/res-and-hashes#comment-1206369 <p>D'oh! Just noticed the date on the post I just replied to ... think I might be a bit late to help!!</p> <p>j.</p> Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:23:27 +0000 whitehawk comment 1206369 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net https://www.webmaster-forums.net/serverside-scripting/res-and-hashes#comment-1206368 <p>In your regular expression, /(\w+)(.*)/$2/), the (.*) bit will match everything, therefore never end (note that regular expressions are greedy, and will match the longest possible string). </p> <p>What you probably want is something more like<br /> ([a-zA-Z]*) or (\w*) (match any alphabetic characters)<br /> OR (([^\s]*) i.e. match anything that's not whitespace.<br /> OR you could use the word boundary thingie, \b ... eg ... (\b.*\b).</p> <p>I haven't tried either of these out, but you get the general idea.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Julie</p> Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:22:34 +0000 whitehawk comment 1206368 at https://www.webmaster-forums.net