>Dragan,
>
>Great solution! Although you need to add an IsLower() test to the construction of the string. The code below would actually cause the chrtran() to remove all the letters.

Good catch - I'd probably find this after a first try. Frankly, I've completely forgotten the purpose of this, just wanted to create a language-independent (or rather, local codepage dependent) list of valid chars.

Of course, IsUpper() and IsLower() are also working correctly with characters in the local codepage - in the locales I have used this, I haven't found anything wrong yet.

>>Actually, I'd rather make this a class, and build such a string like this, in its .init:
>>
>>

this.lcChars=""
>>for i=32 to 255
>>   lcChr=chr(i)
>>   if isalpha(lcChr) and IsLower(lcChr)
>>      this.lcChars=this.lcChars+lcChr
>>   endif
>>endfor

>>
>>I've found IsAlpha() function to be correct for codepages I used so far; having this run only once would make the speed a non-issue, and then the chrtran() would be language correct as well. And we wouldn't have to do anything to do to the app if it's moved to another language, as this would respect the local ANSI codepage setting.