Hi Tuvia.

Can you try the following and see what you get?
lcStr = "Zip Code"
lcSub = Left(M.lcStr, 3)
?M.lcSub, At(M.lcSub, M.lcStr)

That should be pretty much fool proof. There should be no way that unseen characters or codde pages shoudl be able to screw that up.

If that returns 0 then I'd have to suggest reinstalling VFP as it might be damaged.

Ian Simcock.


>I get a return of 0.
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>>With
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>>lx = "Zip Code"
>>ly = "Zip"
>>?at(ly,lx) 
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>>I get a return of 1 in VFP 9 SP1