>I have a large text file that contains !! in various places. It also contains single !'s. I
>would like to look for just the single !'s. I didn't really want to get into the WScript regular
>expression thing ( for one, I wouldn't even know what the regular expression would look like ).

I couldn't resist looking it up: it seemed more useful than checking for "OCCURS('!') and not OCCURS('!!')", or something to that effect.

loRegExp = NEWOBJECT("_regexp", HOME(1) + "ffc\_regexp.vcx")
loregexp.pattern = "![^!]|[^!]!$"  && Match a exclamation point not followed by
                                   && another one, or one at the end of the line
                                   && not preceded by another one.
?loregexp.execute("!u")            && Matches
?loregexp.execute("u!")            && Matches
?loregexp.execute("!")             && Doesn't match
?loregexp.execute("!!")            && Doesn't match