if i am not wrong with [] you escape meta chars like . or * , so you search for dots and chars in your
string.
have a try with .+ or .*
but anyway: if used standalone what do you want to match with .* , it would match every string or with .+ every non empty string...
in general: if you use .* or .+ as a part-pattern in your regex beware of the greedy nature of these
patterns.
[ November 14, 2006: Message edited by: manuel aldana ]