> Martijn, the UDF is not mine, it is the FreeUDFLib Library, and if I
> could just get it to work this way my customer would not have system
> crashes every night at 2 am when they are busy running an emergency
> critical system because FB is using 1.9gb of memory, and I thus get
> called and end up having to take their system down and back up safely at
> that time in the morning too.
>
>
>
> The way I see it is I have the option of the following stored proc ( if
> anyone can help me get the char out of the string at that placement), or
> trying to find another udf which does what I need, which is 100% memory
> safe;
>
>
>

and you're sure its the F_MID UDF? I've used it for years and never struck
memory leaks from it.
Alan