>I have a character string in a field called rinfo and am trying to locate the position of the colon.
>
>rinfo='I am looking for the : in this string'
>
>is there a tidier way to do this than what I have
>
>

>mcount=0
>n = 1 to len(rinfo)
>if subs(rinfo,n,1)=":"
>mcount=n
>endif
>endfor
>

>
>tnx
>k

mcount = at(':', rInfo)