ken said:
>   Yep. From Reference manual:
>   foundPosition = INSTR(startPos,¬

>   targetString$|targetContainer$$,¬

>   searchString$|searchContainer$$)

so a "find" operation should be super-simple using a container, right?
(i assume it's easy to dump the text of an edit field into a container.)

even a case-insensitive search would just need to use a mid$() command
to change all lower-case letters to their upper-case perversions, right?

-bowerbird