>Hi Todd,
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>I think e stands for 'variant'. Variants can be any data type until you store something in it and then it takes on the datatype of the stored item. Look in the help for futher info on the type.
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>>We are encountering a strange varible type in our Debugger window. For a variable that should be a character, it is reporting a lower case "e". We have looked in teh help files but find no reference to this type. Any Ideas what this means?
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>>Thanks
>>Todd Cottengim
>>Alpine Land Information Serivce

Roi, have you ever seen the 'e' type in the debugger? I haven't. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist, just that I haven't seen it. Can you provide an example that would show up that way in the debugger?