-> Robert Holmgren XY-> I responded too, ipso facto -- see above. I'd enjoy to see them. Even if -> superseded in v4.x, I'm curious about the technique employed. MULTI too. I never had much luck sending a zip via the list, so I used an alternative (via Eudora +mime) which will hopefully allow the zip to reach you intact. Within it are five different routines for the wild searches and a multi that allows multiple usage of the invisible middle-wild. Anyone else? The code is old, old, old and straightforward. It even goes back to the days when I wrote if err = true (and still only about 1.3K per XPL). --Chet ---