Ron,

You're getting closer. However, the & HTML codes need to be replaced, not
stripped.

&(amper)nbsp = " " (space)
&(amper)amp = & (and)

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Thanks, Kevin


"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 17:49:00 -0700, AFSSkier
wrote:

Ron,

The amp and nbsp are HTML amper codes. How do you remove them?

Original Data (my comments):
<div<font face=Arial size=2 color="#006666"THE (5/31)6-3 FOR VERSION 2 & 3
ARE READY FOR ON & amp ;(<=no spaces after amper) OFF REPORTS </font</div
<div & nbsp ;(<=no spaces after amper) </div

UDF Result (it's only stripping the none printable characters):
THE (5/31)6-3 FOR VERSION 2 amp; 3 ARE READY FOR ON amp; OFF REPORTS nbsp;

Result needed:
THE (5/31)6-3 FOR VERSION 2 and 3 ARE READY FOR ON and OFF REPORTS.

Slight change to my last Pattern after seeing this example and your results:

re.Pattern = "<[^<]+|[\r\n]|&[^&;]+;"

--ron