Stephen, >Will,
>It really sounds like the issue isn't the regex but the contents of your >description string. I think, as someone has already suggested, you need to >look at the HTML you are getting from your RSS feed to make sure that the >HTML isn't encoded eg. "<" is shown as < in the source. I'm with you now. Having looked at the source, it does look like it's encoded. <b>hello</b> becomes <b>hello</b> The only "real" anchors are for the RSS-fields (item, link, description et al). So presumabely this alters my regex - and I should be looking at, presumabely, So, presumabely this will alter my regex; should I look at stripping the "less than - greater than" signs *first*, or convert them to "real" tags and then strip them as before? Thanks Will ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

