Hi, I'm glad it helped; indeed, the mangled formatting is rather unfriendly for python code...; at least the quoting trick seems to work ok. This is exactly the oppourtunity for python scripting, where you can reuse a ready made function in the json module. Just a small tip - you can open any script file by simultaneously pressing left and right mouse button over a menu item of the respective script; you don't need a dedicated own function for this. regards, vbr
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