In article <[log in to unmask]>, MoyerScott <[log in to unmask]> wrote: ] Subject: Re: Word extraction CI evaluator function ] 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] And (no flames intended) what would be done with things like my FTP address: "ftp.iii.net/ftp/pub/pub-site/tbs"? Aside from the un-matching (?) delimiters problem, would an apostrophe (') in a string indicate an alternative quote in Cobol or possessive case? -- Regards -- Tony B. Shepherd -- [log in to unmask]