thx for your suggestions. Perhaps i will try to explain more. Basically since this is a free text field user would typein Configspec or some notes. the only way i could find that the text is a config spec is by finiding the text "element". But there are riles which i had mentioned in my post. Ofcourse i dont want to validate these lables with ClearCase. This is lets say a soft verification of the config spec. I hope i am clear