"Lars Ivar Igesund" <larsivar at igesund.net> wrote in message news:dts47r$14c0$1 at digitaldaemon.com... > I liked the idea (match expressions), just not the operator, and I thought > that was a common opinion... if ("regex" ~~ "string") _match. ... The equivalent functionality can now be done with: if (m; search("string", "regex")) m. ...