Staz, where do I get the result of the comparison? Also, I thought there were boolean inputs for whether the comparison is case and diacritic sensitive. (I still wanna' know how you do that.) -mark- > >'------------------------------------- >'relString >'------------------------------------- >LOCAL FN relString(@word1&,@word2&) > ` move.l ^word1&,a0 > ` move.l ^word2&,a1 > ` moveq #0,d0 > ` move.b (a0)+,d0 > ` swap d0 > ` move.b (a1)+,d0 > ` dc.w $A050 >END FN > > Mark Arnold User Support Specialist SMSU Libraries Southwest Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri Voice: 417-836-4110 Internet: MarkArnold@...