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To tackle your original problem:

Search For: ST2('SomeText-01a')
And replace it with: ST2(this.id)

The regular expression needs to eat everything between the literal brackets:

ST2\([^)]+\)

so everything that was matched can be replaced with:

ST2(this.id)

Most Excellent!
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I'm new at figuring out replacement expressions so any help getting
me going with this would be most appreciated.

I've tried a bunch of things in the help files, but there isn't much on
how to combine regular expressions with segments of existing code
to identify where to start and stop the regex ...

IconMatrix: thanks for your clear exposition of the problem.

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Version: 6.2.2 32 Bit
OS: Win7 Ultimate SP1

I've tried the suggestions here and a few others and cannot get TextPad to focus instantly on returning to the TextPad window.

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I've used the trial versions a lot over the years and it has always been the best even with the few issues it has had. I've tried all the free editors and I just don't like them as much. TextPad has probably saved me hundreds of hours of work compared to simple text editors like Notepad. So I'm glad ...