thank you



>Something like this should work:
>?iAcronym("Chief Probation Officer")
>
>Procedure iAcronym
>Lparameter pcString
>pcString=alltr(Proper(pcString))
>Local ia, retval
>retval =left(pcString,1)
>for ia=1 to occurs(" ",pcString)
> retval=retval+substr(pcString, at(" ",pcString,ia)+1,1)
>endfor
>
>return retval
>
>>I am trying to pick out first character in a string for example:
>>

>>Chief Probation Officer
>>

>>I need to return
>>

>>CPO
>>

>>
>>I there a quick way of doing this, I will need to perform this operation on hundreds of strings. If there is no straight forward way of doing this then do I put each character in an array and search the array ?
>>
>>Thanks
>>Nick Patel