IanABoys

Thanks, I'm a but new to this so I didn't realise the variable type were a bit loose compared to what I'm used to. All sorted.

I'm having trouble with the StringMid function. I'm placing data on the clipboard and then searching that data for a specific string and extracting a part of the data relative to the search string. The problem is StringMid is returning the numeric value of the string, not the string itself. Any ideas? $data = ClipGet() ; Result "Other data then Patient ID: 12345678" ; Now search for a marker within that data $instr = StringInStr($data,"Patient ID :",2) ; Grab the data from just after the search string $data2 = StringMid($data,$instr+12,8) ;Gets 8 characters that just happens to be numbers and so call it a number when it's not MsgBox(1,"Info",$data2*2) ;Works, multiplies what should be a string by 2