>>Looks like I've been wasting odd lines of code for years then.
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>>I could have *sworn* I've used that lazy way out in the odd noddy code I've written in the past. Let me see now ... was it in PLM/86?
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>>Mind you, for readability, I'd still rather see something more meaningful, like:
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>>lnNumFiles = ALEN(laFiles,1)
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>>For I = 1 to lnNumFiles ...
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>I do that, but not for readability. I do it because each time I don't, there comes a case when I need that value elsewhere in the code, and I don't want to call alen() multiple times.

Why ?