Tamar is a her.

>tnx Al
>I was trying to get this done in a one line command as tamar had done with his seek() ex..
>the locate does not work as shown in below ex. --- worth the try thanks for that.
>

>IF locate ("H", "allocate", "collterm")       
> **** test for left letter h in field collterm in database allocate
>endif
>