Herman, Graham - Catching up on board reading and this thread. I had to address this some time ago and went a different route for performance reasons than the ones that Herman mentioned. Since #1518 was marked being worked on back in Nov., I'm hoping that it will find its way into the next major release, and that it will include a wildcard list function as well as a wildcard remove.
Since #1518 appears imminent and will be better since it is built-in, I don't want to take time and document and post what I did. But, if you have to have something immediately what I'd suggest that you take a look at is the Scripting Dictionary that is on most every PC. What you do in principle is wrap the StaticVar functions and keep track of the names in an associative array / hash table to mimic what AB does internally. The scripting dictionary implements this functionality and is fairly fast because it is in-process, and is easy to use. It is commonly used for this purpose. It also allows you to do some other interesting things such as a sorted list of keys (variable names) with JScript. -- Bruce R
