>Sunshine
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>If a is one character you could also use
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if a $ [abc]
... and for several characters, both fixed-length and variable-length, you can use ";ab;" $ ";ab;cd;ef;", assuming that the ";" separator doesn't appear in the actual data.
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)
