On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 08:07:13AM -0500, Jim wrote: > I use the help a lot, unfortunately I haven't been able to decipher the > complex search patterns. I was hoping someone had already found the magic. Simple actually: "[^"]*" You can use escaped parenthesis if you want to capture the actual text for later substitution or movement: Simple actually: "\([^"]*\)" Hope this helps, BAJ