Yeah, and painful. Although it can be done it regex, it just goes to show why I would much rather iterate through a list and process each element individually instead of handling all the element special cases in a regex. From a processing efficiency standpoint I'm not sure which is better, but I think regarding a programmer's efficiency, and future understanding, I'd lean toward looping through a list and handling each element on its own as a better decision. It just seems cleaner to me (as fun as regex exercises are); but maybe that's just me.

-jbWare