I can t use SUBSTRING nor CHARINDEX within SSRS 2005 expression so how can i retrieve all the characters after '\' without the use of these expression? My dataset looks like this... msd\avf msd\sddg msd\sdab msd\asdw msd\fbf the result should return the following avf sddg sdab asdw fbf

hey there, this expression should work: =mid("msd\fbf",InStr("msd\fbf", "\")+1) and ofcourse you replace this literal string "msd\fbf" with whatever your field you are using