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fantastic! Got that to work. Off to read the other functions you mentioned.

Many thanks

Macsmith

thanks. I am new to livecode and agree that string handling shouldn't be this difficult! I need to read in some string, convert each character of the string to ascii, add something to the ascii value, convert the values back to characters and and re-assemble them into a string, in the right order! T...

many thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately I cannot sort the array afterwards, as it stands, because there is no way of knowing how it should be sorted. My numerical sequence was just to show the effect. The application takes in a random string, converts the characters to ascii, does some arithm...

new user having problems with the combine function. An example below shows the creation of a string containing "1234567890", each element of the string copied into an array and the array converted back to a string with the combine function. The new string contains "1023456789". Can someone point out...