InStr return the Absolute Position in the string, regardless of the
"Start position" the Start position just tells it to skip the first few
characters.

Charles

Norm Lundquist wrote:
Here's an easy one that I can't see!

Why does

InStr(4,"XXpXXpXXPXXP","P",vbTextCompare)

return 6 and

Instr(5,"ABC-123-XYZ","-",vbTextCompare)

return 8??? I thought the second one would return 4 because the second dash
is the fourth character when you start search at position 5.

THANKS!