This is the Parse::Tokens module. Parse::Tokens provides a simple base class for parsing text with embedded tokens. To install the module: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Once installed, see sample.pl for a simple sample script example. Issue the command: perl sample.pl sample.dat See the CPAN module Text::Oyster for an example of use by another module. History: 0.24 - added sample script and data. 0.23 - fix pseudo-bug relating to 'o' option and regular expressions and token matching. 0.22 - add push_delimiters method for adding to the delimiter array. 0.21 - add pre_parse and post_parse methods; add minimal debug message support. 0.20 - added multi-token support 0.17 - delimiters() now returns an array of references to the real and the escaped delimiters. This differs from previous behavior where an array reference was returned. -- Steve McKay steve@colgreen.com