Hi Donald: If you check out the StringContains function, you will see, that if the string you are looking for is contained within the string to be searched, that StringContains returns the position in the string where the match of characters begins. While researching this I also found the StringReplaceSubstrings. This one seems to do exactly what you want. Here is the entry for this one. Function: StringReplaceSubstrings Description For example, StringReplaceSubstrings("hello there everyone", "there", "") would result in hello everyone. Returns Type: string Description: the resultant string Parameters Param 1: Type: string Description: source string Include: Required Param 2: Type: string Description: the substring in source to replace. Include: Required Param 3: Type: string Description: the string to replace any occurances of above string with (maybe null to remove occurances). Include: Required Version This function is available in the following releases: JAWS 6.00 and later Magic 10.5 and later David Farough Application Accessibility Coordinator/coordonateur de l'accessibilité Information Technology Services Directorate / Direction des services d'information technologiques Public Service Commission / Commission de la fonction publique Email / Courriel: David.Farough@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Tel. / Tél: (613) 992-2779 >>> "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx> 10:06 pm Wednesday, January 21, 2009 >>> Hopefully, this is an easy question for you guys.I want to remove all characters in a string after the occurrence of a certain character, lets say ":", and including that character. I looked at the StringLeft and StringContainsChars functions. To have these two functions work together, the StringContainsChars would need to return the index where the character was found rather than just a Boolean True or false. Are there more appropriate functions or methods to accomplish this simple task. For instance I want to transform the string "Menu:only available in To DVD mode" to "Menu" Don Marang __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts