Thanks, Al - that was the easiest solution!!

>I am trying to find vars and their values in a string, and am having a hassle with similar var names. The vars are not all constantly in the string - in other words, it's a mixture of the vars, and I have to test to see what vars are in the particular string.
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>If the string has Var1 and Var10 in it, and I test using $, I get a hit on both, but in the example string below, only Var10 is there
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>VarString= "Var2=cd, Var3=ef, Var4=gh, Var5=ij, Var6=kl, Var7=mn, Var8=op, Var9=qr, Var10=st"
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>If I use TestVar $ VarString and in that string it has Var10, for example, I will get a hit when testing for TestVar="Var10" as well as when TestVar="Var1".
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>How do I eliminate this ambiguity?
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>I hope I explained that clearly enough...

If you want to eliminate this problem at the source, you could rename your variables to Var01, Var02, ...