Hi Si (wow - just like Hallo Hanno *gg*),

> I created a stored proc to do just this type of thing, its called

splittext

> and can be seen here (http://www.fbtalk.net/viewtopic.php?id=238).

To use

> you would call like this:
>
> SELECT OPTEXT
> FROM SPLITTEXT('+49/6849-22415', NULL, '-/+')

thanks a lot for this sp, it's working so fine... ymmd

Best wishes
Hanno