>>I am pulling a lot of text from web pages. With it comes quite a bit of code(ish) looking unwanted characters and snippets.
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>>Is there an efficient way to delete the unwanted text without removing all or part of the text I want along with it?
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>What do you mean by unwanted text? To remove some text, you can use CHRTRAN function or for more complex patterns, RegEx.

Below is an example of the unwanted text. (BTW Thank you for your replies and assistance)

var adSynchId = "787423";

if (typeof tq != "undefined") { if (typeof tq.urlFullQuery != "undefined"){ urlPath = tq.urlFullQuery; } } else { urlPath = "&url=/"; } document.getElementById("remnantIframe728").src = "http://abcnews.go.com/Adserver?CallDown&AdTypes=Banner-Remnant" + urlPath; #search form{_position:relative;_top:3px;}.window{*text-align:center;}#sectionnav, #shownav{text-align:left;}

logoIE = false; if(typeof document.all!="undefined"){ if(typeof document.getElementById!="undefined"){ if(navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("msie 6")!=-1){ logoIE = true; }}} logoSrc = ''; logoImg = (logoIE)?'http://a.abcnews.com/images/site/vortex/spacer.gif' : 'http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Site/default_mainlogo_sm.png' logoSrcFilter = (logoIE)?' style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src=http://a.abcnews.go.com/images/Site/default_mainlogo_sm.png, sizingMethod=scale);" ' : ''; logoSrc += 'img id="abcnewslogo" src="'+logoImg+'" '; logoSrc += logoSrcFilter; logoSrc += ' alt="ABC News" width="158" height="70" border="0"'; document.write(logoSrc);