>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
This is overkill for this problem, but the VBScript.RegExp object allows you to check for a wide range of patterns in a string:

oRegExp = CREATEOBJ('VBScript.RegExp')
WITH oRegExp
   .Pattern = '[0-9]'
   ? .Test(dumbvar)
ENDWITH