>>PS - in the real block of code, there's three lines of comments regarding the regular expression and some shortcomings in assumptions I made in building it that I haven't coded around yet.
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>Don't keep us in suspense, lets see the three lines of comment & see if it's any more understandable (especially to someone with only a small amount of knowledge about regular expressions).

oRegExp = CREATEOBJ('Vbscript.RegExp')
oRegExp.global = .f.
oRegExp.Pattern = "[^:]//(\w+[\w-]*\w\.)*\w+"
*
* Expression - find first occurance of // not preceded by :, trailed by at least one non-immediate . followed by a wordvalue sequence
* allow any valid file constructor character set for a machine name;  no whitespace
* limits - lead character can't be -;  in theory, whitespace is permitted in a machine name
*
lcRandomPlaceToStuffAString=oRegExp.Replace(this.Value,"WinNT://$1") && form ADSI prefix

>Paul