okay, this is an xml line from .lang file which specifies syntax highlighting for a text editor \b0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+([Uu]([Ll]|LL|ll)?|([Ll]|LL|ll)[Uu]?)?\b this will highlight "0xDEADBEEF" or "0X03" and etc this is C style hexidecmal format 0x# or 0X# i would like support added for $# <- pascal style #h or #H <- asm style