>$ = contain
>
>'ABCDEF' $ 'BCD' = .T.
'tis the other way around - "$" answers the question whether the left string is contained in the right string.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)