In a message dated 1/23/00 5:16:48 AM Eastern Standard Time, marcputs@hetnet.nl writes: > In Ti-83 basic, > > is it possible to read a single character > out of a string? > > Example: > > str1 = "SOMESORTOFSTRING" > > How can I check the second character of the string? Use mid(str1,2,1) That will return the string starting at the second character with length 1. Grant Elliott <A HREF="pa.ticalc.org">Programmers Anonymous</A>