Not to seem ignorant...foxtools? what's that? and where do I get it?
Thanks for your reply:)

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>Hi John,
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>The first idea that comes to mind requires foxtools. It contains a function, StrFilter(). You'd use it this way:
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>lcnumbers = StrFilter("#70 blue", "0123456789")
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>lcnumbers would then equal "70".