Hi again Fabio,

>Sorry, EVL() is a VFP8 function.

No problem. I looked it up in the VFP9 beta help (the only thing I have on this machine) and see that, yes, it would be the best function for what I'm trying to do here. When I have the opportunity to upgrade to VFP9 for this project, that function will become one of the new tools in my programming belt.

Thanks much!