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November 9th, 1999, 06:50 PM

I need to find the first 5 charachters in a string I tried puting the source string into a String * 5 but it did not work can anyone help???

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whg

November 9th, 1999, 07:09 PM

strName = "123Holdon"
firstfive = left$(strName,5)
or
firstfive = mid$(strName,1,5)

whg