>I have hit a snafu. I have populated a character field with a series of numbers separated by '#'
>so enos contains the following #26#36#43
>I now examine the field for numbers and when my variable enum searches for the number '2' unfortunately it finds it.
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>if  enum $ (Enos)  =.T. 
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>is there a way to modify that search line so that it will read that number as 26 and issue a .F. for that search of 2.

Add separator to avoid partial matches. Also no need to compare to .T., result is logical already

if  ("#" + enum + "#") $ (Enos + "#")