: -----Original Message----- : From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist- : bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Rob Smith : Sent: Wednesday, 24 May 2006 3:05 AM : To: peter at easylistbox.com; thelist at lists.evolt.org : Subject: Re: [thelist] Asp Split : : : > Why not use the MID()? : : I did. See my second post to this thread. It's working pretty well : now. But it's looping from the beginning of the string to the end of the string. If you only need 2 characters, just extract those two characters using Mid() - why do you need everything else? Cheers Ken -- My IIS Blog: www.adOpenStatic.com/cs/blogs/ken Tech.Ed Boston 2006 See you there: Everything the web administrator needs to know about MOM 2005