>>This is another version of this program: (BTW, Mike, I found a bug in your mhHTMLcode program, you'll see by yourself)
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>Y'all work too hard - there is a simple, elegant solution to this available in Foxtools reduce() or the Vbscript.RegExp object. See this message and the related thread for a reasonable discussion from not long ago.

Thanks, Ed. This is very simple and elegant approach.