>Hi Hilmar:
>
>Thank youf ro your response. It worked. How can this be modifed to check if characters appear in the entire string?
Of course, you could write a loop for the entire string, but that would be slow.
I think you can use chrtran(), something like this:
if upper(chrtran(MyString, AllLetters, "")) # upper(MyString)
endif
Please note that I forgot upper() in my previous sample code.
HTH, Hilmar.
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