>Hi Herman,
>
>> 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 )
>>

>
>Perfect! Thank you very much!
>
>Malcolm

I would use a temp variable instead of doing chrtran twice. See my code, I used the same idea.

Anyway, I'm curious if you can also try Craig's and Cetin's ideas for big strings...