In article <[log in to unmask]>, Jeff Vance <[log in to unmask]> writes: > I agree that strings inside parens, brackets, single and double >quotes to constitute one "word"; however are the parenthesis, brackets or >quotes >part of the word or just a delimiter? It might be best if the beginning and ending delimiters had to match to make a word. "[filename]" would id word [filename] ([filename][group]) would have 2 words in it [filename] and [group]