Probably a good improvement, but still you have to test for other characters because searching on something like a part number that might include dashes or slashes would not be handled by ISALPHA.

>I tried old InGrid once, and had only one remark: its use of between(char, "a", "z")... is locale dependent. I replaced that with isalpha(), so it would work with local codepage.
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>But then I didn't use it because I managed to roll my own incremental search thingy from fpd2.6 into an incremental search VFP grid.