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There may be a less painful way to do this, but this does work. My grasp of
dereferencing is not as strong as it should be, so if Jeff Vance has a
cleaner way to do this, I look forward to seeing it. Actually, I wouldn't
mind a cogent explanation of WHY this works! ;-)

:setvar addr "L'ESPRIT ""TEST"" VACANCES"
:echo !addr
L'ESPRIT "TEST" VACANCES
:setvar test word(!["addr"]," ",2)
:echo !test
"TEST"

1) set the variable.
2) echo it.
3) set the variable, keeping CI from interpreting the contents of !ADDR
before WORD gets to delimit the contents by spaces only (the ," " element
passed to WORD), so that you get the second space-delimited element of your
string.
4) echo it.
5) be surprised that it worked.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com
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