>Hi Herman,
>
>Clever ideas but I need to alltrim any non-alpha char, not just numeric digits. Basically I'm looking for something like VFP9's alltrim() but with a list of ~ 203 char codes to trim or a function like Foxtool's Reduce() that alltrims() vs. "reduces" (sort of).
>

Sorry, I didn't read carefully too <bg>
Would this work?

cAlpha = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
nStartPos = at( left( chrtran( pcStr, chrtran( pcStr, cAlpha, '' ), '' ), 1 ), pcStr )
nEndPos = rat( left( chrtran( pcStr, chrtran( pcStr, cAlpha, '' ), '' ), 1 ), pcStr )
?substr( pcStr, nStartPos, nEndPos - nStartPos + 1 )

>Just sent you some email as well.

Thanks! You are a handsome man though :)

Regards