>>Ed,
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>>>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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>>Thank you, thank you, thank you. I'll no longer dread taking over your code someday. :-)
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>Dave,
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>Just a comment on the expression parser. I think it's an understatement, but it might help to think of it as STRTRAN() or CHRTRAN() on steroids.< g >

I always thought of STRTRAN() as Regular Expressions on Quaaludes...