>>I need to get the location of the nth occurence of a string within another string (from the string end). This is simple in VFP - use RAT(). Is there a VB equivalent?
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>Isn't there a Instr() function? See also Mid().
An interesting aside - I'm actually working in Access so it's VBA, not VB. It turns out that InStrRev() is not available in VBA.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q190274I was trying to use it but I was getting results that were plainly wrong. It turns out that VBA does not throw an error when you try to use it - it simply substitutes InStr() instead! A rather nasty *gotcha* for the unwary.
Regards. Al
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