Anytime you need to do string or text manipulation in VFP, the first place you should go is Steven Black's excellent article. http://stevenblack.com/articles/text-and-string-handling-in-VFP/


>I am searching for the most expedient way to change a character in a specific area of a string.
>
>mstr='1st-title: ANAME-HER : 3520931 place[21-22]'
>in this string the hyphen between 21 and 22 should be a dot.
>if I applied chrtran() I would end up changing all the hyphens which I do not want to do.
>
>right now all I've been able to accomplish is to locate the error in a portion of the string, but putting it back together is starting to get a bit unwieldy.
>Is there a simpler more direct route of directing the chrtran() to the area beyond '['
>
>thanks
>k