Hi Ken,
Why would you not use SUBSTRING? It's very simple as is.
You may be confused with lower-level languages such as C, or I think even Delphi or Visual Basic, where strings can be manipulated as arrays.
Mark

>Don't I remember some sort of syntax to refer to the nth character in a string without using the substring function? It was along the line of MyString<3> or something, for example, to get the third character - (and no, I'm not confusing array functions). Anybody rememeber/know this or am I getting mixed up with another language I used at some point?