Bill- Thursday, April 12, 2007, 6:02:27 AM, you wrote: > put "5" + "5" > gives you > 10 > Would you rather that give you "Syntax Error?" Hmmm. I get "Operators +: error in left operand" And that's what I'd expect. And yes, I *do* prefer that. -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net