>Hi,
>
>I want to return the field name of a string that contains the alias.fieldname value.
>
>"Client.Eduatt"
>"Client.Psedatt"
>
>I would like to return just the field name by searching the string for the '.' and returning the characters right of that period. What is the function to search the string for a particular character?

Hi Jolene,

In VFP 6.0, if I understand correctly, you can use JUSTEXT() to return the field name protion of an "aliasname.fieldname" string.