Larry Terry As stated before REXX STEM's are not arrays. Each element is treated as a string, not a number.
So: names.john.sam.bill.1.sally='abc' is legal and accepted. Just like A.1.2.3.4.5=99 is accepted. REXX variables are restricted to storage and if assigned to a number will also be restricted by the DIGITS command. Many people I have talked with do not understand that a STEM in REXX could be non-numeric. They always associated STEM's with arrays, but they are not. The convention is that stem.0 or stem.x.0 contains the number of elements in the STEM, but this is not enforced by REXX. It is just a standard. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
