Yes, you probably need to write specific syntax. See documentation
for char.index( ) -- beware that the matches are case-sensitive.
The exception that I think of would be if your long strings were
computer generated so that two long strings with the same clue-
word would be identical. In that case, you could use "Autorecode"
to obtain a set of numbers, 1-n, for n unique responses. I expect
that the value labels, which Autorecode creates from the values,
would be truncations of the long strings.
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Rich Ulrich