I moved the two - almost identical - <index> op bodys out of core.ops and called this functions string_str_index... .... and did introduce a new warning WRT const. - const is currently used in some string.c functions rather inconsistently - should we remove it alltogether - introduce a dummy CONST define as hint for the programmer - insert more const decls (e.g. string_trans_code doesn't modify its src, so ... leoThread Next