>>Your FOR EACH...ENDFOR creates and uses its own copy of the lo var, not the one from your Local declaration.
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>Huh? That doesn't make sense. If you fail to declare the variable as local, it will be private. Nothing more.


Duh, I don't know what I was thinking.

You are correct, but I have experienced something similar to his orignial two examples before.

The second method where the hit is being returned via a separate memory variable solved the problem. The lo variable was not an object when the exit from the FOR EACH occured.