Seems like I had to do this once. I assume your data is like this: "Joe","Smith","123 Main Street" Can't you just replace "," with a tab then remove the replace the remaining quotes with nothing? Or even simplier, simply replace the commas with tabs then replace the quotes with nothing to remove them. On Jan 29, 2005, at 9:24 PM, Larry T wrote: > I'm trying to use BBEdit Lite's grep search to replace with tabs only > those > commas not within quotes. I've looked at their grep tutorial, and I > don't > see how to do it. Anybody know? -- Geoff Perlman President and CEO REAL Software, Inc. REAL World 2005 - The REALbasic User Conference March 23rd - 25th, 2005, Austin, Texas <http://www.realsoftware.com/realworld>