Hi Albert,

>should be -> " HELLO WORLD HI "

Some how the blanks got dropped by the UT, as it is above, although I directly quoted it. Must be some HTML thing. :)

>Might be useful to drop the upper(), add "a...z" to the chrtran() string. Doing this gives the option of using atc() for case insensitive searches and at() for case sesitive searches.

No, that's not necessary. Only the inner ChrTran() contains an Upper() in order to determine all characters that are not alphas. The outer works on the original string and removes those non-alpha characters. It does preserve the case of the string. :)

Christof