Hello, An example of what I am trying to do is match a string such as lo?lip?p (the ?s are the missing letters in a crossword clue for example) to the words which fit the blanks in a wordlist file. How can you match a string (where there are wildcards) to another string? I have looked at compareTo but I don't think that is the right way to do it. The wordlist is implemented in a binary tree and, to search for matches, the program does an inorder traversal Can anyone offer any hints or URLs etc. Donnie
Another very popular regexp package is GNU regexp. When the ORO software was unavailable for a while last year, this seemed to be generally regarded as the bast. Frank.
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