It returns the position from the start of the string, not relative to where
you start searching.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"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!