>I must be having a Homer Simpson day, thanks. I had come up with a work-around, looping ISALPHA(SUBSTR(searchst,i). Clunky, but it worked.
>Thanks

The wordnum in foxtools is very handy.

SET LIBRARY TO FOXTOOLS
lcFullName = "Don Johnson"
lcFName = WORDNUM( lcFullName, 1 )
lcLName = WORDNUM( lcFullName, 2 )

HTH