(C) 2003, Tim Maher 1-22 www.TeachMePerl.com Match Highlighting means: representing the match distinctly in context good for settling arguments with the regex engine of form: Nahh! That shouldn't have matched! Examples $ cat soul_song It's a Man's World James Brown $ veperlgrep '\W.*?[\W\S]' soul_song It's a Man's World James Brown $