On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:03:22 -0500, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:29:43 GMT, Eagle@bellsouth.net (J. Hugh Sullivan) >declaimed the following in soc.genealogy.computing: > >> I started an S&R to replace the "s - almost 700. I knew in advance >> that the "Hugh" would become (Hugh(. I see no way to replace the first >> " only with a ( and repeat replacing the second " with a ). A / works. >> The problem? It's not what I want to do. >> > Use TWO find&replace operations... The first pass (spelling out >characters) > >find > <space><quote> >replace > <space><open-paren> > >THEN do a second run > >find > <quote> >replace > <close-paren> > >(I'd prefer to specify <quote><space> but the sample GIVN records may >not have a trailing space) > >-- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/ Thanks, Dennis. I seem to have found the solution I needed at the moment - eliminate NICK from the GEDCOM. But you suggestion will probably be useful later. Hugh