convert [*] to the n with tab

[Marielle Lange]

Dear Bob,

This is a job for regular expressions:

put "[0][0][9]item1[0][0][0][6]item2[0]item3" into tstr
put replacetext(tstr, "(\[[0-9]\])+", tab)
get you:     item1    item2    item3

[0-9]         Means any number between 0-9
\[ and \[     Because [ and ] are characters used to define options  
(as the above shows), you need to escape it
(something)+  One or more of the same thing.

If you can have any number of digits in between square brackets, then  
use
[0-9]+

Best,
Marielle