>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:
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>cString1 = "Your source string"
>cString2 = "Chars to test for"
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>? EMPTY( CHRTRAN( cString1, CHRTRAN( cString1, cString2, "" ), "" ) )
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Hi Jos:

This is a neat idea too and will actually check the entire string for characters. Thanks.