>Ed,
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>>I always thought of STRTRAN() as Regular Expressions on Quaaludes...
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>So, is Regular Expression an absolute standard across various implementations? Will a RegExp used in WSH work exactly the same in a UNIX script, for example?

Regular Expression syntax is pretty much the same within implementations - there are slight variations based on supported characters sets, but there's a standard, portable set of regular expression syntax that ports cross-platform at least as well as 100% pure Java ports cross-platform. In fact, the VBScript.RegExp implements the native Java regular expression syntax.