>Sorry bout the previous message....
>
>I'm looking for those special characters like @#$%^&* , etc in fields in a table. The field's format is 999-9999-99999

Even easier:

lcText = strtran(alltrim(fieldname.value),'-','')   && strip out the dashes
for li = 1 to len(lcText)
   if not isdigit(substr(lcText,li,1))
      * Do something
   endif
endfor