>>>lcLoginString = "jpaskett,ADMINISTRATOR,*******"
>>>
>>>this.cUserName = LEFT(lcLoginString, AT(",", lcLoginString) - 1)
>>>this.cUserLevel = SUBSTR(lcLoginString, AT(",", lcLoginString) + 1)
>>>this.cUserLevel = LEFT(this.cUserLevel, AT(",", this.cUserLevel) - 1)
>>>
>>
>>Try:
>>
>>nFirstComma = At(',', lcLongString, 1)
>>nSecondComma = At(',', lcLongString, 2)
>>This.cUserName = Substr(lcLongString, 1, nFirstComma - 1)
>>This.cUserLevel = Substr(lcLongString, nFirstComma + 1, nSecondComma - 1)
>>This.cUserLevel = Substr(lcLongString, nSecondComma + 1)
>
>Alexandre,
>
>If I'm not mistaken, doing this in my command window returns me the following;
>
>nFirstComma = 9
>nSecondComma = 23
>
>FirstName works fine, however;
>This.cUserLevel = Substr(lcLongString, nFirstComma + 1, nSecondComma - 1)
>will return 'ADMINISTRATOR,****'
>

should be
this.cUserLevel = substr(lcLongString, nFirstComma + 1, (nSecondComma - nFirstComma - 1)

>This.cUserLevel = Substr(lcLongString, nSecondComma + 1)
>
>will return '****' because we are starting at the second comma and returning the remainder of the string.
>But if I used the following it should give me what I want;
>
>This.cUserLevel = LEFT(cUserLevel, AT(',', cUserLevel) - 1)
>
>The code I have originally works fine, but I want to avoid, as much as possible, the amount of times the program has to evaluate and redefine this value.
>
>Thanks,
>Jon