evan sorryn to bother you..im still in this rate thing
im using this function that returns to me the corect name of the rate that the person is using
i do not know how to tie the conditions to fetrmine the rate..please help me out

FUNCTION getrate()
PARAMETERS Result
cRateField="long_distance.rate"
IF LEFT(view1.dialednr,1)="0"
SEEK LEFT(view1.dialednr,6)
endif
IF LEFT(view1.dialednr,1)="1"
SEEK LEFT(view1.dialednr,4)
endif
IF LEFT(view1.dialednr,1)='#'
SEEK LEFT(view1.dialednr,3)
endif



RETURN EVAL(cRateField)