Thanks Selim,
I was trying with vartype, which was throwing an error. Have a good day!
jfh

>try this
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>DIMENSION testarray2[2]
>DIMENSION testarray[2]
>testarray[1] = "dummy value"
>testarray[2] = "dummy value"
>?IsArray(@testarray2)
>?IsArray(@testarray)
>lcString = "just a string"
>?IsArray(@lcString)
>lnNumber = 1
>?IsArray(@lnNumber)
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>
>FUNCTION IsArray
>LPARAMETERS taArray
>RETURN TYPE("taArray[1]") # "U"
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