>Yes Gregory:)
>I generally revert to lowlevel whenever I need similar substr() thing (and to creating an FLL if that doesn't satisfy).
>Cetin


Cetin,

Yes, (suggestion #3 I made this morning)

I found that out when I was writing a function for base64 encoding I posted a while back

suggestion #4 may be faster, but I have no time to try it. Late on my schedule already as it is ;-)