fantastic greg - well done -
that solves a lot of problems!
thanks so much
k



>>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
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>mcount = at(':', rInfo)
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