No

ATC(cSearchExpression, cExpressionSearched [, nOccurrence])

you can use nOccurrence

so

lstr = "1234;5678;91111;1234"

lnum=atc(";",lstr,3)

will set lnum to 16

Nick

>atc function returns the beginning numeric position only for the first occurrence of a character expression within another character expression.
>Not so?