>I'm off to visit a client until next Tuesday, so I haven't taken offence.
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>I'll think about your definition of recursive though, if it can mean defined in terms of something that preceded it (& I don't doubt that you are correct), then doesn't that make for loops recursive. I may just have to restructure all my code to avoid that type of recursion <g>.
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>Bye for a while.

LOL! On a serious note, however, (and this isn't for you) loops (iteration structures) aren't recursive in and of themselves, only iterative. They can be involved in recursion, but in and of themselves they're not. While you can argue that adding values stored in an array via a FOR...ENDFOR loop is recursive, it's really a stretch even with the definition of "defining something in terms of something that preceeded it". Nothing new is really created or defined.