>>Hi Jim,
>>
>>I already tried to explain the actual problem, perhaps you misunderstood me.
>>In a textbox a user enters a value. It's a character type. Now, how can you figure out the actual type of value (what user keeps in mind entering it), e.g.
>>lcValue="10/12/1994" (User meant Date, but type(lcValue)="N" and type("lcValue")="C")?
>>
>>TIA
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>Nadya,
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>Basically, I would say you can't. Unless of course you can read the user's mind.
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>Secondly, again, using TYPE(lcValue) is NOT testing the vlaue of lcValue, it is testing the value of the contents of lcValue. You need quotes aroudn the expression with the TYPE function.
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>

>lcVar1 = 123
>lcVar2 = "lcVar1"
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>? TYPE(lcVar2) && N for the contents of lcVar1 123
>? TYPE(<strong>"</strong>lcVar2<strong>"</strong>) && C for the contents of lcVar2 "lcVar1"
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>In addition, how do you deal with the user entering 123 and meaning it to be a string?
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>I just don't see where I would ever put a textbox that I did not know ahead of time what the data type would be. I can see where I might write some code that didn't know what the data type was, but I can then use the TYPE() or VarType() functions to find out the data type.

Jim, you're absolutely right. Actually, this form was designed by my colleague and then I had to just use it. But, of course, I immedeately found this hole in the logic. That's why I thought about dynamically adding a textbox of necessary type in the run-time.

Again, thanks for your help and patience.