Glad to know it's not just me then. Happy New Year Tracy.

>I feel pretty silly too. I read it and understood it the same as you. Then after the replies he received I went back and read it again and realized I totally misunderstood his message!
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>>First I was wondering why you sent me this but then I realised I misread the request. He means "delete if first char is char.
>>Then I thought "What would a field be doing with DEL as its first char way?", and DOH! < bsg >. I guess I was thinking maybe a spurious Arabic char has got in and, with code translation, became DEL.