Gee, thanks folks. I know that it's a kind of messy way to do something like that, but it works (even if it takes a bunch of clock cycles). For myself, in the long run I'd probably use a functional global.
I thought about it afterwards and wasn't sure that I'd put the example together correctly. I tossed it together in the last couple of minutes before leaving for a funeral. I must use LabVIEW too much since I thought about this example a couple of times during the service. I wonder if other people have LabVIEW thoughts while supposedly doing other things. Should we set up a poll? Rob