Hi Matt,

I think You can automate the whole thing, unfortunately I do not have much time to fully test the RE so take my script as a very early starting point, just an idea, but you could do something like this:

* instead of text...endtext use adir to get the prgs, a loop and filetostr() for PRGs, and adding a USE / REPLACE for hacking the SCX/VCX

CLEAR

TEXT TO lcFileContents FLAGS 1 PRETEXT 1 + 2 + 4 noshow
	m.job_num=alltrim(job_num)
	 lcJobNo=alltrim(job_num)
	 x=y+1*4/2
	 x=(x+y)/3
	 lcString='Please help+lcMe+'fix this.'
ENDTEXT




loRegEX			= Createobject('VBScript.RegExp')			&& Create a regular expression.

WITH loRegEX
	.Pattern		= '(.*?)(\s*?[=\+\*/]{1}?\s*?)+(.*?)'	&& Set pattern.
	.IgnoreCase		= .T.										&& Set case insensitivity.
	.Global			= .T.										&& Set global applicability.
	lcNewContents		= .Replace(lcFileContents, '$1 $2 $3')
ENDWITH

? lcNewContents && this should be a strtofile(), of course you should back up everything :)

Note that in the pattern I have [=\+\*/], that is for = + * / symbols (I even forgot about -), you can add the ones you want there