>Problem is that the phone number has been declared as numeric and padL might not work.
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>Really? Why? Exactly how many mathemetical computations do you do with telephone numbers < s > ?
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Yea - beats me Marcia - lol.

>Having said that, PADL() will still work with numeric data, but it has the effect of transforming it into character data.
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I noticed, but that latter is informative in that it is transformed into a character data. Thanks.

>Also, just an FYI, you can use the STRFILTER function in FoxTools to accomplish the same thing that Nadja an Gerald have showed you with CHRTRAN:
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>SET LIBRARY TO FOXTOOLS ADDITIVE
>lcNewString = STRFILTER( lcOldString, '0123456789' )

Like Dragan says - must have at least 3 ways to skin a fox. Thank you for those quick lessons:)