Of course, I should have thought of the replace command. Thanks Geoff.
Sarah >> I LOVE the filter command - it is SOOO fast and flexible. >> >> I just have one little problem - I need to filter lines contains "***". >> The * is the filter's wildcard so normally I use "*abc*" to search for any >> line containing the letters "abc" anywhere in the line. >> >> I can't use "*****" or the filter returns every line, so what do I do??? >> >> Sarah > > You could at the least do something like: > > replace "###" with "\#\#\#" in someText > replace "***" with "###" in someText > replace "###" with "***" in someText > replace "###" with "***" in someText > replace "\#\#\#" with "###" in someText > > The Filter command _is_ great. > > gc
