Hi Peter,
Thanks. I thought of that myself, but this is for a data migration and it could be called hundreds of thousands of times for long strings. I was trying to optimize it somehow. I agree your idea is the safest approach and probably the most accurate.
>>lcmyString = "123456789 Boldorn"
>>
>>I want to return position 11 because it is the first non numeric position (B). just can't think of it today...
>
>Why not write a tiny routine? This one uses ISALPHA().
>
>
? FirstPosAlpha( "123456789 Boldorn" )
>
>FUNCTION FirstPosAlpha
>lparameter tcString
>local ln
>for ln = 1 to len( m.tcString )
> if isalpha( substr( m.tcString, m.ln ) )
> RETURN m.ln
> endif
>next
>RETURN 0
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