>>Then why do you bother to replace all instances of a string with the exact same string, twice?
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>Ok, here is the what is should be: (I only added the top line)
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>lcCode = strtran(lcCode, '&', '&')
>lcCode = strtran(lcCode, '<', '<')
>lcCode = strtran(lcCode, '>', '>')
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>And as you can see (since this came from the program), all is good, thanks!

That makes more sense. Good job, this change makes the code useful.

You still hilight reservered words in quotes, but eliminating that is a much harder task. This would require stepping through the text and quote counting.