>I LOVE the filter command - it is SOOO fast and flexible.
>
>I just have one little problem - I need to filter lines contains "***".
>The * is the filter's wildcard so normally I use "*abc*" to search for any
>line containing the letters "abc" anywhere in the line.
>
>I can't use "*****" or the filter returns every line, so what do I do???
>
>Sarah

You could at the least do something like:

replace "###" with "\#\#\#" in someText
replace "***" with "###" in someText
replace "###" with "***" in someText 
replace "###" with "***" in someText
replace "\#\#\#" with "###" in someText

The Filter command _is_ great.

gc

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