>I'm guess that something about the variable has changed--something that's not easy to >notice. Maybe there's a space in front. Put a breakpoint on the variable and you >should find out where this is happening. You might also want to check the LEN() of the >variable when it works and compare that to the LEN() when it doesn't work.

I read your mind before even reading your post ;). I tried this yesterday and noticed the two variables had a length size of one character bigger than they should have been. My solution, for now, is to SUBSTR() the strings to the length that they need to be.

Thanks!