Susan, Thank you for pointing all that out to me. I'm still getting my head around the various keys and properties (flags) and your explanation has really helped. Your final solution is brilliant and works a dream. I suppose my pattern -  "(\b(\W+)?(\w+)\.?,?\s){0,5}here(\b(\W+)?(\w+)\.?,?\s){0,5}" - was too specific ...

Susan, I haven't tried your solutions yet, or digested what you wrote. I will give that the respect it desrves later today. However I had to reply now to say thank you very much for such a thorough and considered reply. Not just an answer but a great explanation for someone who is still new to this. Can I award you points for being so ...

Another newbie question. I have been programming for years but just discovered Regex and have been using it to really speed up what I'm doing. It's very powerful. However, I still get lost in some of the complexity. I have looked to see if this question has been asked before but didn't see anything. If it has, I apologise, and perhaps ...