>>is there a quick way to inspect a text document and change all [1] to [01] and all [2] to [02] etc something along the lines of what i have set up below (which doesn't work) - or should i be looking at another approach altogether?
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>>cFile = Filetostr("C:\mytext.txt") 
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>>cFile = Strtran(cFile,Chr(202),"E") && using this code i can change only one character at a time
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>>cFile = strtran(cFile,"[5]","[05]")  && can i use the same approach for character string - perhaps using chrtran??
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>>thanks k
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>It looks like you may need to use RegEx here. Chrtran will not help. But I'm weak as to writing the correct pattern...

mmmm i have heard of it in other programmiing platforms but whether there is a vfp equivalent would be useful.
k