Re: pulling out Numbers

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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:16:02 -0700, Mike H <MikeH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks Ron,

I'm only on my 4th read of John Walkenbach's 2003 bible so perhaps some way
off this yet.

Mike

Regular expressions are extremely powerful tools for string manipulation.
Harlan Grove turned me on to them, and I've found them quite worthwhile,
although I'm still a novice in their use.
--ron
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