As others have said it sounds like 'C'. If you have worked in 'C', that is probably it. I think with something like String(3), String is just a memory location and 3 is an offset...but I forget 'C' syntax. It has been a number of years...

Joe


>Hi,
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>never said I wouldn't or didn't use SUBSTRING, in fact I do, and quite often!
>I was just trying to recall something I thought I remembered at some point.
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>>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
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>>>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?