>Methinks I am not being clear today. :)
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>My whole objective was to avoid having to write a procedure to handle the error. Because this isn't a global error handler, and only used by a snippet of code, I wanted to just have the error assigned to a global variable and process it within the snippet itself.
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>Since there is apparently no built-in function to retrieve the error message, and I know no way to assign different values to two variables in the same line, I'll just write the error handler program.
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>Thanks,
>
>Michelle

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Try

on error AERROR(aErrorArray)

Then you have aerrorarray(1,1) as errornumber and aerrorarray(1,2) as message