Interesting treatment, JR - not sure I understand the tilde in brackets thing though. Guess I'll try it out. Thanks
Terry
>Terry,
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>You can make your comparison independent of SET EXACT by doing something like
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IF m.mystring+[~]=[1~]
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>Or you can do a numeric comparison in which case 123 never equals 1.
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>Regards
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>j.R
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