> Someone much more clever that I can probably come up with something much > cleaner and efficient but.... This works... Definitely not more clever and arguably not more efficient, but a different way of handling this might be: <? function replace($string){ $string = preg_replace("/(<|\^|>)/", "",$string); $string = str_replace("_", " ", $string); $string = ucwords(strtolower($string)); $string = str_replace(" ", "-", $string); return $string; } echo replace("<^JIM_JONES>"); ?> Regards, Murray -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php