Thanks for the ideas.

VFP barked at the embedded '&', but work that out. Then RegExp threw a COM error when executing. it. Is the hex character for international letter sets necessary.

>Hi Greg,
>
>Looking at modify class _regexp of Ffc\_regexp.vcx method execute, it misses the multiline option.
>

>LParameters tcStr, tlCaseMatters
>
>Local loRegEx, loMatch, loMatches, i
>
>loRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
>loRegEx.pattern = this.pattern
>loRegEx.ignoreCase = !tlCaseMatters
>loRegEx.global = .T.
>
>loMatches = loRegEx.execute(tcStr)
>Dimension this.matches[Max(loMatches.count,1),2]
>taMatchInfo = .F.
>
>i = 1
>For Each loMatch In loMatches
>	this.matches[i, 1] = loMatch.firstIndex + 1   && fox strings are not zero-based
>	this.matches[i, 2] = loMatch.value
>	i = i + 1
>EndFor
>
>loMatches = .F.
>loRegEx = .F.
>
>Return i -1
>

>
>You need to instantiate "VBScript.RegExp" yourself:
>

>loRegEx = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
>loRegEx.pattern = this.pattern
>loRegEx.ignoreCase = !tlCaseMatters
>loRegEx.global = .T.
>loRegEx.multiline = .T.
>

>
>Then this pattern should work:
>

>(^[ \t]*(?=[_\u0041-\u005A\u005F\u0061-\u007A\u00C0-\u00D6\u00D8-\u00F6\u00F8-\u00FF\u0152-\u0153\u0160-\u0161\u0178\u0192#@&=\?\.\\](?!&))(?:(?:HIDD(?:E|EN)?|PROT(?:E|EC|ECT|ECTE|ECTED)?)(?:[ \t]+|(?:[ \t]*;\s*?(?=&&|$).*?$\s+)))*(?:FUNC(?:T|TI|TIO|TION)?|PROC(?:E|ED|EDU|EDUR|EDURE)?)
>

>
>
>
>>Have been trying to construct a Regular Expression pattern to find a string that only exists at the beginning of a line, even if there are none or more white spaces before it (either spaces or tabs).
>>
>>Example text I'm search
>>
>>

>>DEFINE CLASS test
>>	PROCEDURE init
>>		IF ATC("DEFINE CLASS",x)>0
>>		*
>>		ENDIF 
>>		IF ATC("PROCEDURE",x)>0
>>		*
>>		ENDIF 
>>	ENDPROC
>>	PROCEDURE destroy
>>	ENDPROC
>>ENDDEFINE 
>>

>>
>>If I am look for the "DEFINE CLASS" (ignoring the case), I would like for it to find only the "DEFINE CLASS test". Also, If I am looking for "PROCEDURE", I want it to find only the "PROCEDURE init" and "PROCEDURE destory", not the one in the ATC().
>>
>>Here is a example of the search code I am trying.
>>
>>

>>RegExp = NEWOBJECT( "_RegExp", "RegExp.vcx" )
>>ctext=FILETOSTR("tt.prg")
>>? RegExp.execute( ctext, [(\bdefine class\b)], .F., .T.)
>>? RegExp.execute( ctext, [(\bprocedure\b)], .F., .T.)
>>

>>
>>I realize I need to be including the '^' (start of line), possibly '\s*' for the white spaces. but when I do include them the query fails to find anything. I only want it to find matches that are at the beginning of the lines.