<quote>That's some pretty ugly HTML (both versions), so I'm going to hope there are some typos in it.</quote>

Yeap. Not as pretty as it could be, but very ideal for my situation. I need to make pages for phone (almost) as lean as possible while navigatable because the phon is old enough to struggle opening files larger than 50K.

<quote>or if the tags will always be the same, strip it out with a regex.</quote>

Exactly. The tags in any given document will be the same, but the heading title words from which I want to strip the first letter to make link href and name are different, so it needs to find first letter of words and combine them for link ids. Then I use sed to create my TOC at the top of the page. appreciate a kick in the right direction. nap

In reply to Re^2: search and using first letter of words on a line by Anonymous Monk
in thread search and using first letter of words on a line by naphelge

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