Quote Originally Posted by Dave Sell
Using pattern matching implies a formatted input as an input argument to either an operator (Like, +, etc..) or a named function.

Is this what you are doing? Please explain more.
The input will be in the form of some data in an excel cell. This alphanumeric data, for the most part would be formatted correctly (meaning that the data would be as is, without any quotation marks or anything)...but sometimes the data might have quotation marks in the beginning, end or both...for example, if abc represents the correctly formatted data..the incorrect formatted data might be "abc or abc" or "abc"

I want to trap these quotation marks, if present, and remove them.

I hope this explains my problem..please let me know!! Thanks a bunch