Finding a certain number/letter at position "x"

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- TheNormalGeek
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Here is the problem:

I got a text box with 5numbers, how could I for example see the 4th number in this piece of text?

Example:

Text = 57396

Find the 2nd number

I should get the answer 7

I tried mid function, might not be doing it correctly?

If anyone got an idea on how to do this and would like to add a capx I would be grateful!
- thehen
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'Left' function :)
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- TheNormalGeek
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Could you provide some kind of capx(<img src="smileys/smiley31.gif" border="0" align="middle" />)? Might be setting it up wrong.
- R0J0hound
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Use mid(), the position is zero based so to get the first digit use:

mid(Text.Text, 0, 1)

second:

mid(Text.Text, 1, 1)

third:

mid(Text.Text, 2, 1)

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- jayderyu
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scirra.com/manual/126/system-expressions
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