adding numbers with letters

If I remember correctly, you said the Regular Expression implementation
from VBScript is what you use.

Yes, that's correct. It is virtually the same as the Javascript
implementation. Take a look he
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6wzad2b2.aspx

Thanks for the link... I just printed out the pages.

On the MS site, if you select Regular Expressions under VBScript, the
links take you to the JScript documentation.

Interesting.

Rick

that was just a simplified example, here is what I actually need
(why do so many posters do that anyway?).

That's the proverbial $64,000 question!

Solve that dilemma and you can become fabulously rich.

LOL

This was not as great a problem over in the compiled VB newsgroups as it seems to be in the Excel newsgroups (but it does happen over there too).

Rick