>>Doyle,
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>>>I'm looking for a function to locate the occurance of a number within a character string such as AT(). Thhanks to all.
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>>Please explain in more detail what you need. Do you mean you want to find "675" in a character string, or you want to find the first numeral in a character string, or look for all the 9's, or what?
>
>Try VAL(mystring)
>
>mystring = "ABCD2345DEFG"
>
>VAL(mystring) = 2345!

You're saying that this is the result he wants, right? The above will yield 0.00. However, with a little help from Foxtools:

mystring = "ABCD2345DEFG"
? VAL(Strfilter(mystring, "0123456789"))

produces 2345.00