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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I have a lookup to a 60 character field which was originally to hold a name. As my client never used that field for this purpose, we decided to use it to hold a “NY” to indicate the person associated was in New York. Yes, there is a state field with NY, but this is a subset of those, plus some in either new jersey or Conn. Can be part of the NY subset.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My program checks<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If: foobar(34)=”Ny”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then: IsNewYork=”Y”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This allow branching to handle those records in this subset. However I am getting records posted that are not part of the NY subset.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Since they do not want me to resize the field I need to do one of these in my program.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If: mid(foobar(34),”1”,’2”0=”NY”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then: IsNewYork=”Y”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Or <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then: ny(2,*)=foobar(34)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If: ny=”Ny”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Then:isNewYork=”Y”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My thought is to use option 1.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>More to the question, foobar(34) is blank in all records except for those in the NY subset. Why would IsNewYork be set if foobar(34) is blank?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Richard kreiss<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>