Don't berate yourself to much Robert, we've all been there. We all suffer at some point, what some of us like to call, cerebrul flatulence, better known as brain farts. :-)

Cheers

>>Sounds like myvar isn't numeric. Try issuing myvar=0 or STORE 0 TO myvar before the code in the detail area.
>>
>>>I am trying to add the values in a number fld in details record
>>>to a mem var and come up with a total for all the detail records.
>>>myfld is the value in the fld and has a data type of num 7.1...
>>>and myvar is - int to myvar = 0 ...
>>>The code I am using in the detail area is...
>>>myvar = myvar + myfld..
>>>The error message I am getting is - OPERATOR/OPERAND TYPE MISMATCH..
>>>Does anybody have any idea? ... thanks
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>hi Colin,
>I feel like a dummy. My code looked like this..
>myvar=myvar=+myfld...
>Can you believe I did not even see the equal sign even though
>I looked at it for a long time.. I must have been really
>brain dead this morning...
>thanks anyway... :)