I grant you that I am using 5.0, but the help says that sys(2015) returns a combination of letters/numbers (after the first character, which is an underscore). So it seems that entirely likely that that 3rd character could be digit.

>I'm using VFP 6.0 under Nt4
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>when i use substr(sys(2015), 3, 10). Sometimes i receive a numeric for the first character. Is it possible ???