>I am importing from a text file to a table timetemp.dbf
>the problem is that part of the text string i am importing is hyperlink
>example:
>mytext string 122333 end of string. ****the 122333 is hyperlink in the original email from which it is imported.
> the next command in programming is
>

>append from mytext.txt type sdf
>replace all rinfo with ltrim(rinfo) 
>

>is there a way for me to remove the hyperlink status associated with the numbers.
>I thought that text file would not carry the hyperlink tag. but apparently it does.

do while "<"$lcString
   lcCut=strextract(lcString, "<", ">",1,4)   && or whatever the flag is to mean "include delimiters"
   lcString=strtran(lcString, lcCut, "")
enddo

Here I'm assuming that the tags are opened and closed on the same line. If not, you may have to do a filetostr("mytext.txt"), remove tags, then use aLines() to get the text into an array and then loop thorough the array instead of scanning through your cursor.