Hi,

> The records I'm looking for have the following info:
>
> First Field:  bytes 1-6 = "UPSRED"  bytes 7-22 are blank
> bytes 23-26 = "nnnnn"  ( I need to find all records with UPSRED)
>
> Second Field:  bytes 1-2 = "10"  byte 3 = "n" (0 thru 9)
> byte 4 is blank
>
> How do I search for all records with UPSRED and a numeric string
> in 23-26  in field 1 and 10n in bytes 1-3 of field number 2.

You could try:

F FIELD1 IB "UPSRED                0000",&
"UPSRED                9999" AND FIELD2 IB "100 ","109 "

IB is 'In Between', and inclusive (the arguments are returned, too)

HTH!

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