Hi Thomas,

if yo go for the TYPE instead of PEMSTAT why not VARTYPE?

Agnes

>>I have a program that checks to see if a property already exists on an object before adding it, which would be the better way to determine if the property already exists?
>
>You can call addproperty even if the property does exist, if you only have the need to set.
>The operation is even faster ;-)
>If you are checking before a get, Type() might help you more than !Pemstat
>
>>

>>    IF PEMSTATUS( m.loMyObject, [cNewProperty], 5)
>>      ADDPROPERTY( m.loMyObject, [cNewProperty], [Test Information])
>>    ENDIF
>>