Hi Fabio!
Thats also "***" - 3 stars solution
Thank you for your help!

Denis

>

>clear
>
>lc_sele = "HP%DRUCKER AND (PRICE>100,00) AND (PRICE<200,00)"
>
>* why this whole work is it a mystery ?
>
>lcTest=Strtran(lc_sele,' AND ',chr(249)) && or some other CHR() value which is never used!
>?GETWORDCOUNT(lcTest,chr(249))
>
>* ALINES do all the work
>FOR k=1 TO ALINES(andItems,lc_sele,' AND ')
>	? k,CHR(9), andItems[k]
>NEXT
>

>
>>Bingo!
>>Thank you very much!
>>
>>
>>>This is the CORRECT way to do it:
>>>

>>>lc_sele = "HP%DRUCKER AND (PRICE>100,00) AND (PRICE<200,00)"
>>>lcTest=Strtran(lc_sele,' AND ',chr(249)) && or some other CHR() value which is never used!
>>>?GETWORDCOUNT(lcTest,chr(249))
>>>

>>>>Hello,
>>>>Here is little example
>>>>

>>>>lc_sele = "HP%DRUCKER AND (PRICE>100,00) AND (PRICE<200,00)"
>>>>?GETWORDCOUNT(lc_sele," AND ")    && return 4
>>>>?GETWORDNUM(lc_sele,1," AND ")     && return HP%
>>>>?GETWORDNUM(lc_sele,2," AND ")     && return RUCKER
>>>>?GETWORDNUM(lc_sele,3," AND ")     && return (PRICE>100,00)
>>>>?GETWORDNUM(lc_sele,4," AND ")     && return (PRICE<200,00)
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>Why? 1-2?
>>>>
>>>>Denis