Hi Gregory,

>>BTW. I found some time to read your link. So understand that building the machine might slow down for complex patterns. This will change the design of the use somehow. Thanks again.
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>The reason I mentioned the links, was to get a better understanding how the machine works. It's a state machine. The active states are marked with a penny
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>As to building the machine, this example is perl related. The way we use it, it's only built each time you assign a pattern (and maybe the IgnoreCase as well ?)
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>But there are times I have a couple of RegEx'es active, each with a different pattern

Yes, I agree that the use of multiple RegExp Objects will speed up. The way it works every change of Pattern, Multiline, Global and Ignorecase will create a new machine - and this seems to be the slowest part. Lets see if a can found some spare time to get my RegExp class altered.

I found all myself puzzeld with that lot of money. I'm not used to. ::)
Agnes