The problem is solved for now... or should I say I have found a way around it (hmmm... ugly). The problem was that the variable that was send to the subroutien for 'naam' did look alright to me but not to the program... I now get this variable by inserting the var I get from the string in to a new string and get it out of that again with a new regular expression (I'm sure you don't like this way of doing it, but for me it works for now...) I want to thank you all again for your time! Jeroen