Hi Malcolm

>Thanks again for the new code, but it doesn't work either. I think I'm going to stay with my current approach unless someone stumbles across a Win32 API call that does something similar.
>

Sorry, I made a mistake when I cut & paste. It should be this:

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

Hope it works now
Regards