Bernd,
I'm not sure how all languages will deal with such comparison, but between
all the posted code, I'm sure the OP can contruct something workable.

NickHK


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Hi Roger,

Please forget my MMULT approach. Tom's SMALL combined with Nick's LCASE
or LOWER was it.

MMULT was part of a complicated way to construct {0,0,1,0,2,0,0,3,..}
to get the order of capitals.

But maybe there will be a more elegant use for these matrices {1,1;0,1}
or {1,1,1;0,1,1;0,0,1} in future :-)

Nick's way of comparing UPPER and LOWER will save the day for
Scandinavians, Germans, etc.

Regards,
Bernd