How would I pull numbers from a string? What im trying to do is pull the minutes from TIME$, so --:X:-- with X being the minutes

HR=VAL(MID$(TIME$,3,2)) (I think)

There is a command called TMREAD, so you could put 'TMREAD(TIME$) OUT H, M, S'. This will assign the different values of TIME$ to their respective places, as long as TIME$ is in the right format, although it's a system variable so you don't have to worry about that.