Hi Mohammed,
Are your three first positions letter forever and the number begin in the fourth position?
If your answer yes so you can to do it:

lnSticket = Val(SubStr(Sticket, 4))
lnEticket = Val(SubStr(Eticket, 4))

In other case you can to do a parse and look for a first number and substract it.
Good luck!


>hi all,
>any idea, help

>Sticket=ABC100 CHAR TYPE
>Eticket=abc40  CHAR TYPE
>NOOFTICKET NUMARIC TYPE
>NOOFTICKET=  Sticket- Eticket=60

>THANKS