Ken,

You speak very authoritatively. Can I assume that you are a member of the VFP Design or Management team?

I must also say that this is, to say the least, an unusual situation for any computer 'language' that I have come across - that, BY DESIGN, a command may cause an Exception.

Truly, this situation should not be allowed to stand, as it will be far too tempting for the VFP (and other) language 'designeers' to make this regular practise.

I hope that the powers that be reconsider this stand.

Regards,

Jim N

>VARTYPE() currently behaves by design, there will not be a patch or change to it in future versions. The design is to pass a calculated expression/value. In the cases of a variable not existing, it returns U, as a convenience, so that it can be used in a few more useful situations.