>I have a string which contains spaces. I a trying to locate the last space in the string. however rat() seems to deliver a zero.
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>cstr = "Mary Hellen Bell"
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>result = rat('',alltrim(cstr)) result = 0

'' is not the same as ' ' - RAT(' ',ALLTRIM(cStr)) should work (ie it does work if I try it.)

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>shouldn't rat() return a 12. What gives?
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The empty string '' is not equivalent to a space.