At 01:35 PM 04/29/2004 -0400, William Wueppelmann wrote: >After taking a quick look at the codes, I am guessing that this regexp >should remove all of the ANSI escape codes from your data: > >s/\033\[.*?[a-z]//ig; oh, very nice. that does get almost everything, and i can work on ways of picking off the rest. this'll be much easier than trying to write an ANSI escape character converter, which is *so* not what i wanted to do today. (i'm suprised there doesn't seem to be one though.) Thanks to everyone -- this helps. And I'm still definitely interested in any scripts folks are willing to share for how you've gotten Expect to chat up your OPAC. thanks Ken Ken Irwin [log in to unmask] Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian (937) 327-7594 Thomas Library, Wittenberg University