> R>SELECT SLEN(vMyVariable),SLEN(.vMyVariable) FROM > MY_SMALL_DUMMY > SLEN (vMyV SLEN (.vMy > ---------- ---------- > 6 6 > So, the results are the equal. But is either > approach in-correct or subject to inappropriate > results?
The dotted version is correct. The non-dotted version is just the expression parser being kind to you -- but the expression parser gets crochety as it ages, and can become a stickler for little things that it used to let slide in it's wild youth. -- Larry
