>In part of my application, it is necessary to allow the user to replace one or more words/phrases in a memo field. The words/phrases to be replaced are enclosed in square brackets. What I want VFP 3.0 to do is "read" each replaceable word/phrase in turn, let the user enter other words/phrase to replace it, then go on to the next replaceable word/phrase.
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>Any help on resolving this will be appreciated.
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>Thanks,
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>Alan

Have you trie using strtran() ?