Thanks Jackie, I use a combination of chop left and substring. I know that the first character is a zero so I get rid of it and then use substring to test the next character. The code I used is below. let SColNumber = stringChopLeft (SColNumber, 1) if SubString (scolnumber, 1, 1) == 0 then let SColNumber = stringChopLeft (SColNumber, 1) EndIf Tom Bissett __________� View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts