I remember $hregex() was initially added, and then deprecated with $hmatch() and bundled into $hfind(). That's why motivated my particular suggestion.

Yes, I understand there is $findtok() and $matchtok() that can also be combined with $wildtok() in theory, but I'm not going to touch that. Let's leave well enough alone smile


Well. At least I won lunch.
Good philosophy, see good in bad, I like!