That's exactly the problem BUT it can be over come by simply using the regex solution twice, once to prepare the var for being a checkbox value and then reversing it to print the HTML back to the txt file. Dumpdadah! Yay!
Thanks again and again guys! Where would I be without ya?
jg
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