>Right you are. How about this one? <g>
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function FirstPosAlpha
>lparameter tcString
>RETURN at( left( alltrim( chrtran( m.tcString, [1234567890], '' ) ), 1 ), m.tcString )

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>And an even shorter (not quicker) one is:
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function FirstPosAlpha
>lparameter tcString
>RETURN at( left( chrtran( m.tcString, [1234567890 ], '' ) ), 1 ), m.tcString )

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>But this is essentially the same algorithm that Hugo proposed here: Re: Find position 1st Occurance of nonnumeric value in a str Thread #1280661 Message #1280664
>And Borislav here: Re: Find position 1st Occurance of nonnumeric value in a str Thread #1280661 Message #1280669

Right, I didn't read every message carefully first time. So, Hugo should get the solution points <g>