>Cetin,
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>Thank you for your code! It works great with large strings, but I should have mentioned in my original post that I'm using this code to cleanup word sized chunks of text parsed from a string of words vs. giant strings.
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>Interestingly enough, your code inspired another unrelated idea so it still proved very helpful.
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>Thanks again,
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>Malcolm

Oh yes it depends on size. I'd probably go for a FLL in any case if it's needed thousands of times.
Cetin