On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Miles Beck wrote: > How can I do a search and have the search not match substring=" ". I need it > to only match when there is a value there instead of the " ". What tool are you using? (grep?) Using regular expressions or Perl regular expressions (or prce)? Just use something like: substring="[^ ]" Feel free to share some log entries and the tool you are using for us to help. Good luck, Jeremy C. Reed http://www.isp-faq.com/