Hi Brenda,

You might want to consider the Microsoft VBScript.RegExp class.

You can access it via CREATEOBJECT('VBScript.RegExp') in FoxPro


Then check out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnclinic/html/scripting051099.asp

Regular Expressions are complicated, but very powerfull.

HTH,

Cris