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>Hi Karen:
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>Another solution here :D
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>Considering that there are always three "parts" separated by ":" symbol, this will do it in pure VFP:
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>mstr='1st-title: ANAME-HER : 3520931 place[21-22]'
>? GETWORDNUM(mstr, 1, ':') + ':' + GETWORDNUM(mstr, 2, ':') + ':' + CHRTRAN(GETWORDNUM(mstr, 3, ':'), '-', '.')
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Yes, but it turns out that the hyphen is not always a hyphen