Stupid question: How does rev know to process that as a regex as opposed to the literal " +"? "Jim Ault" <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:BFB8FBD4.316E8%JimAultWins at yahoo.com... > Another approach is to use : > > put replaceText(fld storyline," +"," ") into fld storyline