I understand the concept of searching *something* for substrings, my question is, can I look for a substring in a certain position? Say: search for 1234 pattern in starting in position 5, ????1234* or something along those lines, is that possible? thanks, -- Fernando Medina, Jr. fmedina@grupo-uno.com Grupo Financiero Uno Fingerprint: DE50 8BF0 85B2 F1CF 8690 E487 2EB9 3421 AC56 61D7