Hi Einar.
Thanks for the tip and i'll have alook at it.

Regards,

Gerard


>Gerard,
>If you are comming from a VFP background I would strongly reccomend to download the VFP for .NET toolkit (http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/vfp/). (It seems like the site has some problems right now)
>I do not directly use the DLL I simly use the source code, that you can download , to help me figure something out in C# if I know how to do it in VFP.
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>Einar
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>>Another question on manipulating strings.
>>I have a numeric field (N 10) and I want to take the last 5 characters
>> and include it in a field with other text.
>>
>>e.g.
>>MyNewNum = "ABC" + Substr(str(MyNum),6,5) + 'XYZ'
>>to end up as : ABC00035XYZ (The 00035 is left zeroed MyNum)
>>
>>How would this be done in c sharp.
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>>Gerard