>Because, in REXX, everything is a string. > >X = 3 > > and > >X = "3" > > leave the same value in X.
And in both cases, the DATATYPE of X would be NUMERIC? That shouldn't be. If my intent is to perform a character string comparison and the value just so happens to look like a number, I might get bad results due to REXX performing a numeric conversion??? That sucks. Regards, Ulrich Krueger ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
