>>I thought that with the advent of structured programming and OOP worrying about memory pollution was passe (well...at least in the halls of MS land)...hell, memory's cheap...<g>
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>David,
> I don't know about memory usage, but David's IF / ENDIF example will run a tiny bit faster than " SET EXCLUSIVE &MyOffOnStringVariable "
>David.

The whole quote from the Lexicon of the Structured Programmer...

"Memory's cheap 'n gettin cheaper.
    CPU's go lickity-split.
It's Real Cool Code that makes pockets deeper,
    So faster? smaller?...To hell with it?"

>(Sure are alot of Davids out here today!)

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