>>>>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.
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>>Below is an example of the unwanted text. (BTW Thank you for your replies and assistance)
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>>var adSynchId = "787423";
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>>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;}
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>> 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);
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>Grady,
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>I do a lot of "web page scraping" myself, and I have ended up using Strextract() more and more. I don't know if it's to any help to you, it depends on whether the web pages are similar or not.

I hadn't seen that before today. Thanks again and I am off to do some coding. ;-)