Hi David,

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Your two requests of the functions are not exactly equivalent.

occurs() must always scan the entire string to find and count the total number of occurances in the target string.

at(,,n) can stop its scan of the string as soon as it finds the Nth occurance.
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I known this, but if you put MAXOCCURRENCE on Nth occurance parameters,
AT() must always scan the entire string, except the right residual.

With AT(,,VFPSTRINGLENGHTLIMIT) the job of AT() is superior, because for every found occurrence must verify if it is that one tried.

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Thanks David, I go to see immediately.

Fabio