On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:36:43PM -0600, brandon@roguetrader.com wrote: > ;strsed("asdf{a bcd", "({[^}]+)", "\\%1"); > => "asdf\{a bcd" Sorry, that will not work properly, try: strsed("asdf{a} bcd", "({[^}]+[^}])", "\\%1");