Would this work they way you envision? I think you will still need to predefine the variable.
SET VAR V1 = NULL -- SET VAR VENDKEY TEXT -- IF V1 IS NULL THEN -- DIALOG 'Enter value for v1' v1 vEndKey 1 -- ENDIF -- RETURN Hope this helps. Mike Ramsour -----Original Message----- From: James Hageman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RBASE-L] - Create variable on the fly I want to be able to find out if a variable exists and if not to create it and then pronpt the user to assign a value to it. I thought I could do something like : IF (IFEXIST(v1,.v1,NULL)) IS NULL THEN DIALOG 'Enter value for v1' v1 vEndKey 1 ENDIF But I get an error message telling me v1 doesnt exist, Right! I know.
