Tht's got it -
Thank you all for the help

>How about this.
>? substr(string,atc('word',string)-50,100)
>
>>I am running into trouble finding a solution to this.
>>
>>I want to search inside a string of text to find a word.
>>Once the word is found I want to back up say 50 characters.
>>Then extract about a hundred characters forward from the 50 characters back position.
>>The result would be a phrase of 100 characters with the seached word in the centre.
>>
>>PS - This is recreational programming - Nothing urgent going on :)