Itschak Mugzach wrote: >have a look into the data in hex format. there are probably non printable >characters there between word 2 and 3, causing this parsing.
No, I got the same results like Peter. No strange characters involved. Peter needs to slightly, but easily modify his PARSE to get the correct results. Just watch your ':' and '.'... ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN