>Ah! Good luck, I'm sorry that I can't help since I rarely use regular expressions.

Me too. It seems to much faster when involving extended lists of search strings on large chunks of text.

>
>>This is part of a tool I am developing. A test suite console for my FUnit tool.
>>
>>>Please forgive me I am totally wrong, but it seems to me like you are tying to reinvent the wheel. Have you ever tried Gofish?
>>>
>>>>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.