Hi Erik!

>>Meel, dhr. H.J. van|Posthumus, dhr. B.J.

>OriginalString = "Meel, dhr. H.J. van|Posthumus, dhr. B.J."
>LeftPortion = LEFT(x, ATC("|", x)-1)
>RightPortion = SUBSTR(x, ATC("|", x)+1)

Thanks alot for the answer! It works (didn't know the ATC() command :-))!! But. With textstrings which have the | in them it works fine. In my table it doesn't seem to work. I seems to be a RETURN code or something. Because if I type ?table.fieldname in the commandprompt it will show:

Meel, dhr. H.J. van
Posthumus, dhr. B.J.

Instead of the | sign. Because if I make a variable like:

OriginalString = "Meel, dhr. H.J. van|Posthumus, dhr. B.J."

And then ?Originalstring then I get a nice print of:

Meel, dhr. H.J. van|Posthumus, dhr. B.J.

So in other words I need to specify the return sign somehow. In C it's /n but what is it in FoxPro?

Thanks!