>Infortunatly , dont read all the thread but i remark in your question one thing:
>the strtran as used by you is case sensitive (defaut flag=0)
>try the case strtran with insensitive flag (1) as below:
>for vfp9:
>

>*STRTRAN(cSearched, cExpressionSought [, cReplacement]   [, nStartOccurrence] [, nNumberOfOccurrences] [, nFlags])
>*flag 1  Search is case-insensitive and replacement is performed with exact cReplacement text. 
> 
>cFile=STRTRAN(cFIle,cMissingText,cReplacedText,1,1,1) &&first occurence,one occurence,insentive case
>

No its not the case Sensitive Issue. I just Need to The 1 numeric Position from where my String starts and the Last position of where the String Ends so that I can Extract it using SUBSTR() Function