never really said it was "right" just it seemed to make more sence, than having an identifier that held the total matches, as i couldnt see a large scale purpose of subsituting the total matches over and over, while i could see a use of a descending count (ascending wiould be more usefull but still atleat the match points would be refrenceable using a descending one)

Of course if as u said a seperate directive for each, well that would be even better.

PS: my understanding of regex is very limited , so im looking at this from a very simple point of view, please excuse any facts i am unaware of (ie; if that can already be done)