On 8 May 2013 as I do recall, Jeremy Nicoll - zf freelists wrote: > Harriet Bazley <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >DEF FN@GTRL > >LOCAL start%, end%,sub$,n%,len%,line$ > > REM search for letters G T R L, poss. separated by space or punctuation > > line$=D$ > > start%=INSTR(line$,"G") > > end%=INSTR(line$,"L") > > IF (start%=0) OR (end%=0) THEN =FALSE: REM does not contain target string > > len%=end%-start% > > This will go horribly wrong if there was any "L" to the left of the "G" in > the string. > Eeek! -- Harriet Bazley == Loyaulte me lie == If it's not broken, don't fix it.