>Wow! you're so right, Thomas. Silly me.
>
>>Don't want to be RATting on vfp capabilities, but going AT it from left and right might be KISS on this specific UC
>>
>>LastIndexOf in other script languages feel overblown compared to vfp conciseness
>>
>>;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>Please consider these two cases
>>>>

>>>>A=F1 (Plan 99 \Old Plan 100\)472 676 w
>>>>A=F1 (Plan 99 \(Old Plan 100\))472 676 w
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>I need to Extract the Text Between the two Brackets i.e "(" and ")"
>>>>
>>>>If I use STREXTRACT(A,'(',')'), for the first Case I get " Plan 99 \Old Plan 100\", which is correct as per my requirement.
>>>>
>>>>But I get "Plan 99 \(Old Plan 100\" for my second case while It need "Plan 99 \(Old Plan 100\)".
>>>>
>>>>I Need to extract the Text Between Two Extreme Brackets. How to do this in both the above situation.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Harsh,
>>>
>>>A generalized function that expands on STREXTRACT():
>>>
>>>

>>>? OuterStrExtract("A=F1 (Plan 99 \Old Plan 100\)472 676 w", "(", ")")
>>>? OuterStrExtract("A=F1 (Plan 99 \(Old Plan 100\))472 676 ", "(", ")")
>>>
>>>FUNCTION OuterStrExtract (Searched AS String, BeginDelimiter AS String, EndDelimiter AS String)
>>>
>>>	LOCAL ARRAY Segments(1)
>>>	LOCAL SegIndex AS Integer
>>>	LOCAL RebuildInnerStr AS String
>>>	LOCAL OuterString AS String
>>>
>>>	m.OuterString = ""
>>>	m.RebuildInnerStr = ""
>>>
>>>	FOR m.SegIndex = 1 TO ALINES(m.Segments, STREXTRACT(m.Searched, m.BeginDelimiter, "", 1), 0, m.EndDelimiter) - 1
>>>		m.OuterString = m.OuterString + m.RebuildInnerStr + m.Segments(m.SegIndex)
>>>		m.RebuildInnerStr = m.EndDelimiter
>>>	ENDFOR
>>>
>>>	RETURN m.OuterString
>>>
>>>ENDFUNC
>>>

Based on What Thomas Sir commented, can there be some simpler Solution to my requirement. ?