Hi Ed,

Thanks for the response. What you suggest reminds me of a constraint. The report is actually running in another VFP EXE. I think this removes my capacity for setting the variable in the manner you suggest. Honestly, the scoping thing from that point of view is still somewhat nebulous.

What I am trying at this point is to create a report variable and make a call to a function which can answer the question and return the result as a part of its own memory scope.

Thanks again!
Larry