>Suppose I am having the following three strings
>
>403.879 378.665 MV (Higher Edu. CESS)SH
>
>456.597 337.070 MV (require any Signature)SH
>
>/F0 FF 7.0 SCF SF 403.879 400.524 MV (Service Tax)SH
>
>I need to extract the Values 403.879 & 378.665 from it (See first String).The above values are always before 'MV'
>
>I may use GETWORDNUM() But How will I get the Position of "MV" in Each string. The AT() Function gives me the character Postion of MV and not Word Position, I need the Word Position.
>
>How It will be Done ?


Use something like:

lcString = "403.879 378.665 MV (Higher Edu. CESS)SH"
IF "MV" $ lcString
    lnPosition = GETWORDCOUNT(LEFT(lcString, AT("MV", lcString) + 1))
ELSE
    lnPosition = -1
ENDIF
* If positive, it was found