>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>How to check for alphabetic letters in myfield or which command in VFP to use to check it ?
>>>
>>>myfield = 'aaaBBBccc' good
>>>myfield = 'aaa123ddd' no good skip this row.
>>>
>>>Tia
>>
>>

>>? Test('aaaBBBccc')
>>? Test('aaa123ddd')
>>
>>PROCEDURE Test(ss)
>>RETURN EMPTY(AT("0",CHRTRAN(m.ss, "123456789", "000000000")))
>>

>
>Simpler:
>
>

procedure test(ss)
>return ss==chrtran(ss, "0123456789","**********")

Apparently, but on VFP it have to read the string ss, into the VM stack , TWO TIMES;
if m.ss is a 16M string this is a very slow process.

When VFP it will support the use of strings by reference into expressions
and into native functions, then all will improve of NNNx times

return (@m.ss)==chrtran((@m.ss), "0123456789","**********")