Hi, I have some text in a file which, when it's dumped to a var, needs to be replaced. In its raw form, it looks like this: <^JIM_JONES> and I need to remove the <^_ and > characters and have it read "Jim-Jones" It's nestled in amongst a load of other text - I'm fopen'ing a file and reading it line by line - the text-to-replace is just in a var named $text1 Any ideas would be great Will -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php