Thanks for the solution. Not having used chrtran() b4, I really had to think about this function and what was happening!
>Hi Timothy.
>
>>> What's the best way to test for the existance of a numeric char in a string? If I had dumbvar='Johnson x4588', I would want to know that there are numbers embedded. -TB <<
>
>IF CHRTRAN( dumbVar, '0123456789', '' ) == dumbVar
> *** There are no numeric characters in the string
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