If I was an Ostrich, I'd stick my head in the sand right about now! :o) You are the first one to catch the obvious. I shouldn't be reversing the order at all, but switching the pairs as your example clearly does quite well. What was I thinking? (I obviously wasn't!) Thanks Steve!


>What are your requirements? Completely reverse the order, or switch the two pairs of rgb() settings? I assumed switch the pairs...
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>Didn't see any advantage to using a loop to reconstruct:
>
>

>local lcInside, laBusted, lcReturn
>dimension laBusted[1]
>
>oldval="RGB(0,0,0,255,255,255)"
>lcInside = substr(oldVal, at("(",oldVal)+1)
>lcInside = left(alltrim(lcInside), len(alltrim(lcInside))-1)
>
>if alines(laBusted, lcInside, ",") = 6
>	lcReturn = "rgb(" + laBusted[4] + "," + laBusted[5] + "," + laBusted[6] + "," + ;
>	                  laBusted[1] + "," + laBusted[2] + "," + laBusted[3] + ;
>	                  ")"
>else
>	error "invalid source string"
>endif
>? lcReturn>
>

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