On 2/28/12 11:54 AM, John Kearney wrote: > the match string and the replace string are exhibiting 2 different > behaviors.
Yes. Quotes in the match string are handled like quotes in the %% and ## pattern removal expansions: they quote special characters for the matcher and are removed. The double quotes inhibit the quote removal in the replacement. This can be changed, but it's not backwards compatible. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/