On Tue, 25 Sep 2012, Henrique Andrade wrote: 1) If you know the starting non-space symbol you can use the strstr() function: <hansl> string s1b = strstr(s1a, "@") </hansl> 2) More generally, <hansl> loop while strncmp(s1a, " ", 1) == 0 --quiet s1a = s1a + 1 endloop </hansl> Or via a function: <hansl> function string trimstr (string s) loop while strncmp(s, " ", 1) == 0 --quiet s = s + 1 endloop return s end function string s1 = " @Gretl is great!" s2 = trimstr(s1) print s2 </hansl> Allin Cottrell