>Does VFP have a string function that returns characters from the middle of a string? ex. MID(cstring, 5, 3) where 5 would be the starting place in the string and 3 the number of characters to return? I thought that I had used it before in VFP, but apparently not. If there is no function, any ideas for simple solutions to mimick it?

Surely, VFP has SUBSTR() function.