>>Times.WordUsed is a numeric field - Value is 2011 through to 2020
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>>Cauight2 is a string
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>>IF Times.WordUsed $ Caught2 Function value argument error occurs here.
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>>How do I search inside the string for the number?
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>>I've tried converting the number to a string using the CHR() function
>>and noodled around in VFP help for a while but no luck.
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>Will this work?
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>If STR(Times.WordUsed) $ Caught2

Thanks. Sergey gave me TRANSFORM() as the solution