>What is the slickest way to figure out if alpha characters are in a string
>such as:
>
>x = "234e593"
>? DoesItContainAlpha(x) && Returns .T.
>
>y = "1345.00"
>? DoesIt ContainAlpha(y) && Returns .F.
>
>I can cycle through the whole alphabet and see if one of the
>characters are contained in the string, but that seems to
>long......
>
>Does anyone know a quicker way?
>Thanks,
>Dan

How about

x = "234e593"
? LEN(x) = LEN(CHRTRAN(UPPER(x), 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ',''))

If it returns .f. then the expression has a charater in it. This only hadles letters.