I have got a text file which a lot of useless texts in brackets i.e. (something). There are no nested braket at all. Can something help me to figure out a script in VB or C++ that can delete all occurrences of brackets and stuffs inside them without the layout of the text. I appreciate your help in advance.

You can use this function to delete any text, including the open and close chars, between any two chars (brackets, etc.). You pass it a buffer that is 10 bytes longer than the text file you want to read into it and zeroed ( c++: new() or c: calloc() ). Write 'buf' back out to a file to see your modifications. #include <string.h> int delbrackets( char *buf, char openC, char closeC) { char *p,*q; for(p=q=buf;*p;) { p=strstr(p,openC); if(p==NULL)return 0; q=strstr(p,closeC); if(q==NULL)return 0; memcpy(p,++q,strlen(q)+1); } return 0; } jorgen

I made a mistake, the args for delbrackets() should all be strings, I forgot the '*' on openC and closeC: The correct version is: int delbrackets( char *buf, char *openC, char *closeC)