>Not to be a Pig here but did you read the question? The TYPE and VARTYPE of an array return the TYPE or VARTYPE of the first element. I don't know wether the varriable is actually an array or not.

Bill,

Read and try the answer,

TYPE("MyArray(1)") will return a "U" if MyArray is not and array and some other data type if it is an array. Yes the type returned will be the data type type of the first element but if the return is "U" then you know that MyArray is NOT an array.