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That's odd. I couldn't get \t to work at all. It could be that the pattern didn't work for some other reason and I changed the tab pattern and did other things to it.

I would love to get this as close to what I'm use to. I love to fiddle with regex and come up with some wicked complex patterns ...

Woohooo! I'm golden. I can put text in hidden fields with all my regex code. I can use \011 to escape tabs since RR doesn't do \t. Because I'm using text in a field for the regex pattern I can escape quotes the way I'm use to \".

Now if this is all silly on my part let me know. If there is a better ...

Oh my... I think I figured this out... is this the only way?

here's sample text to find. There are leading tabs and quotes throughout the text:

"1" false true false true

To "find" the "1" I am using the following "regex" in RR:

"(" & tab & "+" & quote & "[0-9]+" & quote & ")"

So the only ...

I am going to simplify my question to some degree...

How the heck do you escape quotes in replaceText()?

-vern

Okay here's the story so far...

I have application files from a commercial animation program that are plain ascii text. The application in question has no backwards compatibility, you can't save to an older version, so I simply need to reformat a few "sections" of the file to convert to an older ...