Hi there everyone, What’s the best way to remove slashes to stop the following from being output from a string: City = HYPERLINK "file:///\\\\\\'Alliance\\"\\\'Alliance\\\' Say the string is called $city, I tried the following: Stripslashes($city); but it didn’t seem to work? Chris -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.4 - Release Date: 2/1/2005