[rules-users] Regular Expressions : Collections : matches problem

Hi folks, I have searched the archives and can't quite find the right way to write this rule, if it's possible. In a nutshell i have a Global Collection of regular expression patterns. I would like a rule to take a single string from a fact and try to match it to any of the saved patterns. so i have a basic test harness here to try : global Collection regexpString rule "Test" when $TEST : TEST( NAME _*matches*_ regexpString ) then System.out.println("working"); end -------------- The Collections is set outside the engine and contains test inputs of [".* Smith.*",".*-Jones"], and so would match "Dave Smith" or "Rupert Perry-Jones" Can you help me fix the above code in order to do that. I am new to drools and am struggling to get my head around complexities like accumulates and collect(). Would these help? In the worst case can i create my own function that uses an iterator and java's own regular expression features to do this? (i'm guessing via an Eval) Any help or creative criticism of the design would be appreciated, Drools 4.07, java6, (recovering JESS addict ;-) ) Thanks Gary