Thanks Sergey
I was using TYPE but I was checking for "C", one of those senior moments! Seems like it would be an application environment variable or something.

Anyway, I appreciate it

>>Can "pemstatus()" be used to check for public variables created in the main program? What object do PUBLIC variables exist in? What's the best way to see if PUBLIC variables exist?
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>Hi Chuck,
>
>Variables in VFP exist outside of OOP world. They don't belong to any objects. You can use TYPE() function to check for there existense

IF TYPE("myvariable") <> "U"
>  WAIT WIND "It Does Exists!"
>ENDIF