Hi Buzz... Thanks for the response. In other situations, what you mention is what I would have done. But as the string is going to appear in an attribute value of an XML node, I'm limited to one line, as in breed="schnauzer". So I can't really concatenate string(a & b & c), etc with more than one line of code.
The only alternative I can think of is to hard code (yuck!) a case statement in my core script that gets passed an integer and does whatever that case says to. I appreciate the response anyway, Michael M. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]