Hi Mark,

I agree. That was also why I added the smiley! :-)

>>Hi Terry,
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>>For your information (or you may already know this), VARTYPE is faster than TYPE. But, of course, I guess you will never notice the difference in practice. Unless you use TYPE extensibly. A nanosecond here, a nanosecond here, before you know it your aplication runs milliseconds faster! :-)
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>AFAIAC, the minimal gain in clock ticks is not worth the unreliable/unexpected results that you can get using VARTYPE. However, I have never had a bogus return value using TYPE.