You are looking at regular expressions.

Take a look at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...ting051099.asp
Microsoft Beefs Up VBScript with Regular Expressions

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"ExcelMonkey" wrote in message
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Can someone tell me what this snippet of code means? What is the role of:

1) [
2) ^
3) +
4) (


Const Words As String = "[^a-z]([A-Za-z0-9$]+)"

Thanks