I apologize if this has been covered, but I couldn't find it anywhere.

How can I get any string beginning with the same text (comma, percent, etc.) to be highlighted?

Thanks for your help.

First, remove those characters from the Delimeters section in the syntax hightlighting for that file type. Then create a color section for them using ** to match leading characters. e.g. In Perl, all variables start with $, @, or %. I have the following in the Perl section of my wordfile:

Thanks, but that didn't work. I'm trying to do this in SAS programs, so that comma9. or percent5. would be highlighted (I'd be happy with just the comma or percent part of the format).