>But... suppose I need to search resources of different types, how can I,
>using the same function, convert rsrcType$ to _"XXXX"?
>
>This must be easy!
>
Bernie,

The value you want is a long integer. By getting a pointer to the string, 
you can read the long integer directly from bytes 1-4. This does about 
the same thing Alain suggested, but looks a bit neater to me.
>
>
>N.B. tempTextHolder is dim'd as container
>
>//LOCAL FN searchExtRes(fileName$,fileVol,rsrcType$,rsrcID,searchStr$)
>                                          ^^^^^^^^^
   LOCAL FN searchExtRes(fileName$,fileVol,@rsrcType as 
ptr,rsrcID,searchStr$)
'                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    extResFileRef% = FN OPENRFPERM(fileName$,fileVol,_fsRdPerm)
>    LONG IF extResFileRef% <> -1
>//        dataResH& = FN GET1RESOURCE(_"DATA",rsrcID)
>                                      ^^^^^^^
           dataResH& = FN GET1RESOURCE(rsrcType.1&,rsrcID)
'                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^

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