I took the same approach just today. Another alternative would be VARTYPE(), but you are doing virtually the same thing as TYPE(). You could even try DISPLAY MEMORY to a file and searching that, but that seems cumberson. I think you may have the best solution.
>Hello All:
>i need to verify if an array exists.
>I can use ?type('myaray(1)') <> 'U' but is there another command that might be a little more flexible??
>
>Thanks
Michael Helms
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