>>>I want to seach a string for the presence of a specific word. I just need to use it on this one small function from within my app and the simplest method would be the best. Any recommendations?
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>>You mean, like:
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>>IF "Word" $ cString
>>   ?  "Found it"
>>ENDIF
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>>If case is not important, change both with UPPER().
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>Oops. I didn't think $ works with a variable. I only used it in a select statement. Why I thought that is beyond me.

You can also use:

? ATC( "Word", cString ) > 0

And in that case, the search is case-insensitive without conversion. Most string functions in VFP support case-insensitive use.

My 0.02,