>I don't think there's an inStr function in FoxPro... although it's 99.9% likly that I'm mistaken.
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>If there's not, is there a substitute function that I can use to do something like this:
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>myString = "kdjfkjsf hjhuei oioiuwquiod john uhehjkdf hasjhdkh"
>:now I need something to detect the "john" in the string and return it and everything to the right of it including itself:
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>myString = "john uhehjkdf hasjhdkh"

Use at() to get the position. Be sure to check whether it is found (at() returns 0 if nothing is found).

Let's say you save it to a variable, like lnPosition.

substr(MyString, lnPosition) (without the third parameter) will return you the remainder of the string.