Yeah my bad. For my example, a while loop wasn't needed, especially for a single match. I guess I was spaced out. lol Yeah the if ($istok($strip($1-),$me,32)) { would have done the trick just fine. But using $istok has also come with a downside: if someone uses, "Hi Jaytea, can you help me?" it won't trigger because of the comma being in the way.

About napa's regex, he could have added the word boundary character so it matches for the $me the way it is, and is not constrained by the punctuation characters:

/\b\Q $+ $me $+ \E\b/iS