Tere're many different ways to build such function. Here's one I just wrote. It works but I didn't do thorough testing.

FUNCTION Scramble (tcStr)
LOCAL lnI, lcRet, lnPos, lnLen

lnLen = Len(tcStr)
* Fill the result string with characters that cannot appear in the source string
lcRet = REPLICATE(Chr(255), lnLen)
=Rand(-1)
* Take characters one by one from the source string 
*	and place randomly into the result string
FOR lnI =1 TO lnLen
  DO WHILE .T.
        lnPos = RandInt(1, lnLen)
	* If randomly selected position is filled already, try again
	IF Substr( lcRet, lnPos ) = Chr(255)
  	    lcRet = Stuff( lcRet, lnPos, 1, Substr(tcStr, lnI,1) )
	    EXIT
	ENDIF
  ENDDO
ENDFOR
RETURN lcRet

FUNCTION RandInt(tnLower, tnUpper)
RETURN INT((tnUpper - tnLower + 1) * RAND( ) + tnLower)

>I was hoping to find a pre-existing function in VFP that would have functionality along the lines of:
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>SCRAMBLE("word") which would return any of the following:
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>ordw rodw rowd drow ordw owdr
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>and so on. Basically, I want to randomly scramble the letters within a word.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>TIA