dim objFSo, objFile Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") Set objFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile(getidentifier("$scriptdir")+"badword.txt",1) sText = objFile.ReadAll arr = split(sText,vbCrLf) for i=lbound(arr) to ubound(arr) OUTTEXT = Replace(OUTTEXT,Arr(i),"somethingtoreplacewith") next