Hi Mike

EMPTY() is not Rushmore Optimizable.

I'd go one further than Jim...

lcBlank = space(len(posted))
REPLACE Posted with "JUL02" FOR Posted = m.lcBlank

>Hi Jim,
>
>What is the SPACE(LEN()) about? I would expect performance to be fine just indexing on Posted and running the REPLACE command the way Randy already has it.
>
>Mike