You're welcome.

>Thanks for the info. Appreciate your help as always.
>
>>By default, any memory variable created, has type 'L' - logical. With Scatter a memory variable has a type of the corresponding field.
>>

>>zz = NULL
>>? TYPE("zz")	&& L
>>? STR(zz,5) 	&& Error because zz is logical
>>
>>zz = 0
>>zz = NULL
>>? TYPE("zz")	&& N
>>? STR(zz,5) 	&& No Error
>>