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Vic, I don't know what Basic Rick was talking about. I've never seen one that would allow MID$ on the left side of an assignment. At any rate, I don't see a problemimplementing it in C if it isn't allowed on the left side. The syntax I've seen has always been as a function, (a true function), and the result is assigned to the lvalue. a$ = mid$(x$,3,4) If a temporary buffer is created to handle the intermediate storage requirements, it would be up to the function to deallocate the memory if necessary. You could probably even use the stack for intermediate storage, and of course the requirement of the trailing zero would be handled by simply plugging one in after the resultant string. -larry