>Sorry you had to get bitten to learn it. There are those who will argue naming conventions will stop this, but I can't always control the field names users will come up with. So the only way I can be sure my code will not crash is to use mdot.
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>http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~EssentialMDot
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>I now put m. in front of every memory variable I can.
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My colleagues are really teasing me for using mdots <g> But I do use them anyway. Started to use them after working with Mike Asherman and seeing his code, which I liked a great deal at that time.