> >I may have removed them because I couldn't understand them, but in doing > that it would fix the problem. <g> > > This is weird. I never had or saw this problem before. (IE: correct parens > always worked fine, no matter if there were useless pairs od parens.) They may have always done what you asked for, but that may not have always been what you wanted. For example the following statement is correct, but it is difficult to read without parens: m.llDateChk = m.ldDate = file.date