On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Thierry Douez <th.douez at gmail.com> wrote: > put replaceText( "IILLoovveeRReeggeexx", "(.)(?!\1)", empty ) Very clever Thierry! These back references are very useful. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html>