Hiya buddy....

>What's goin' on "Gonzo" John :-)?


Nothing good....in a crisis project which would explain the dramatic drop-off in posts by me the last week or so. Sigh...by the time a nice juicy tech issue comes up 3 people have already answered it!!!!!

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>I recently had to convert a series of reports which had embedded IIF() statements. I had to break them down into the traditional blocks, otherwise, I never would have understood what was going on.
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>Anyway, to each his own. With my background (which includes Pascal) it feels exactly the opposite. I will agree, however, that a well spaced in-line IF isn't that much more difficult to read, as long as the expression being evaluted is clearly understood, as well as the results.

Exactly ;)