George, Is the first character a blank space?
If so, how about the LTRIM function (or TRIM if you want blanks removed from both ends)? Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: George H Baker To: RBASE-L Mailing List Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 3:30 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - SGET use Does anyone have a snipet of code that can be used to set up SGET to delete the first character of data in a text field? I had this working as a pointer in 2.11 but progress marches on and there must be a simpler was of doing it.This is my first need in 7.6. Any idea would certainly be helpful and a time saver for me. George Baker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.0/1508 - Release Date: 18/06/2008 21:08

