http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-26T01:44:27 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000991.htm#35608 The example says that the expression REReplace(report, "<[^>]*>", "", "All") will remove all html tags from a string, and this will work 99% of the time, however, there are a few exceptions discussed on http://haacked.com/archive/0001/01/01/1471.aspx where a straighforward regular expression like this will not work. A more complete regular expression (as given on that page) would be </?\w+(((\s|\n)+\w+((\s|\n)*=(\s|\n)*(?:".*?"|'.*?'|[^'">\s]+))?)+(\s|\n)*|(\s|\n)*)/?>, which accounts for things like newline characters and angle brackets that happen to appear as data. LukewarmFusion 0 0 2005-06-16T08:11:03