Ed,

you're right. This is subject I need to study. I will look into the book you have sugested. Thanks for the help.

Regards,

Ron

>>>It is good to see that you can think outside of the VFP-box. The messages regarding the use of VBscript were very educating.
>>>
>>>In order to replace some of my program that do some search and replacing I would like to know how I can do the following:
>>>a text file contains a huge number of records. The fields are seperated with a comma but the record is not seperated. The end is allways a date. What I want to do is to add a carriage return after the the date.
>>>
>>>loreg = CREATEOBJECT('vbscript.regexp')
>>>WITH loreg
>>> .GLOBAL = .T.
>>> .ignorecase = .T.
>>> .PATTERN = '..\/..\/..'
>>
>>Bad pattern to start with; instead, try:
>>
>>.pattern = '(\d{2}/\d{2}/{d{2})'
>
>Typo; should read:
>
>.pattern = '(\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{2})
>
>>
>>>lcoutstring = .REPLACE(onzin, '\1\2\3 ' + chr(13))
>>
>>Bad replace string; try:
>>
>>lcoutstring = .Replace(onzin,'$1'+CHR(13)+CHR(10))
>>
>>You need to learn how regular expressions work; I'd suggest picking up a copy of "VBScript Programmer's Reference" from Wrox Press; it covers the use of the VBScript.RegExp object pretty well in a couple of chapters.
>>
>>>ENDWITH