I have read Robert's 5/28/02 post on parsing a string by means ofMy problem is simple: I want to use this facility in a loop, so instead of the literal number--e.g.,1--I want to use a variable whose value is the loop's index number. But just plugging in the variable doesn't seem to work. I tried:. To test, I halt the program at the end of the first loop, then display what's in>> where 01 is the loop's index counter. . What I see is the first 75 characters of the string in 44, when I should get only the first 11 characters. And using the literal "1" gives the desired result.Is there any way to insert a variable rather than a literal number? Thanks. Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx