I real stupid question, I have been able to use array elements (I think) within the same procedure
w/o "Preserving".

The latest "myRevision" of your code gives me the info I need as I believe than Ron's code will give
me the numeric constants but not the position in the strGiven.

As you can tell I am a newbie to Arrays, actually VBA.

Thank you very much for your help. For me at my age I learn new areas best when I must deal with it
in a real challenge. Reading about VBA flies thru my brain unless I can embellish code which works.

BTW, I posted an additional quested re "Preserving" in between my work and your response which I
appreciate..

EagleOne


"Jim Cone" wrote:

You can only "preserve" the last dimension of an array.
I recommend you see if Ron Rosenfeld's regular expressions code
does what you want before going further down the looping path.