>At 11:28 AM -0600 2/23/08, David Thompson wrote: >>"abcd"["-.",-1][".",-1][2,-1] > >Actually "abcd"["-.",-1][2,-1] will do it and that's the method I've >resorted to. When I tested it, "abcd"["-.",-1] returned abcd and "abcd"["-.",-1][2,-1] returned bcd which is why I wrote it the way that I did. Dave