From: Reinhart Viane Date: 2010-03-01T19:39:22+09:00 Subject: gsub for string ------=_NextPart_000_023B_01CAB933.DAE87AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I'm looking for a function that makes it possible to do the folowing: Replace all substrings --xxxx-- with -xxxx--1 in a string. The xxxx represents an unknown value (can be anything) Is there a way to set unknow characters in a gsub function? Thx! ------=_NextPart_000_023B_01CAB933.DAE87AE0--