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Thanks, Ron, I never would have though to look under COPY()...<br />
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With the help of this forum, I just might be able to finish this project...:)<br />
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Thanks, Ron, I never would have though to look under COPY()...

With the help of this forum, I just might be able to finish this project...:)



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I hate to post these no-brainer questions, but I find the Delphi help to be less than helpful. &nbsp;For instance, I see no listing of built in functions anywhere, and there are rarely an examples in the Help files...<br />
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What I am trying to do is so utterly simple. &nbsp;Here the way it would be in xBase:<br />
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MyVar := &quot;MARY&quot;<br />
SecondPos = SUBSTR(MyVar,2,1) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&amp;&amp; SecondPos now contains &quot;A&quot;<br />
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Thanks... &nbsp;<br />
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I hate to post these no-brainer questions, but I find the Delphi help to be less than helpful.  For instance, I see no listing of built in functions anywhere, and there are rarely an examples in the Help files...

What I am trying to do is so utterly simple.  Here the way it would be in xBase:

MyVar := "MARY"
SecondPos = SUBSTR(MyVar,2,1)          && SecondPos now contains "A"

Thanks...  





Equavelent to xBase SUBSTR() function?

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