Henry, I see that Hilmar has already provided a solution. This might also help. The following will return .T. if cString1 does not contain any of the chars in cString2:

cString1 = "Your source string"
cString2 = "Chars to test for"

? EMPTY( CHRTRAN( cString1, CHRTRAN( cString1, cString2, "" ), "" ) )

(Solution extracted from several similar UT threads)

>Goodmorning Jos:
>
>Thak you for your kind reponse. With the IF statement, I want to check if variable mCharacters contains any of the alphabetic letters. If it does then, I want to remove the first two characters, which are the position that could potentially have alphabectic characters, so that all that is left are numbers. This field has been declared as a Character field.
>
>Thank you Jos.
>
>>Henry, none of the lines are wrong in any obvious way - provided mCharacters and mOldID exist and IncompleteList is an object with ID as a property. What are you trying to do with this code snippet?
>>
>>
>>>Hi all:
>>>
>>>The following code does not want to work.
>>>
>>>

IF mCharacters = ("ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTXYZ")
>>>			mID = alltrim(SUBSTR(mOldID,3,7))
>>>		ELSE
>>>			mOldID = IncompleteList.ID
>>>		ENDIF

>>>
>>>Where am I going wrong? TIA.