>PMFJI -- One caveat that occured to me with these commands everyone has offered is that they will pull ALL of the numbers out of the string, ie:
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>2nd #70 blue = 270
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>You may need to check more carefully to see if there is text between numbers and pull the numbers out seperately. Then again, you may not, and I may be wasting bandwidth :-)
>

If that's the case, simply modify Christof's statement to:

ChrTran(lcString,ChrTran(lcString,"0123456789","")," ")

So that blanks will be inserted for all non-numeric characters; you can then parse the string to your heart's content, looking for whitespace as separators in the string.

>>Hi John,
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>>>Is there a way to find a number within a string? Here's the twist, the number could be anywhere in the string, and I want to find any number...like this "#70 blue" or "70 blue" or "blue 70"
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>>My suggestion is similar to George's, except that you don't need FoxTool.Fll:
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>> ChrTran(lcString,ChrTran(lcString,"0123456789",""),"")
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>>The inner chrtran determines all characters that are not digits and are contained in the string. The outer ChrTran removes all of these characters. What remains are the digits. It's the same a StrFilter().
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>>Christof