Thanks for the quick response. ----- Original Message ----- > "Donald Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > But when I try something like b[0][0] the passer ignores the second array > > subscript parameter and returns only a "point".
> You need the extra parentheses because the two subscript operations need > to work on fundamentally different datatypes --- if you write f1[1][0] > you are asking to subscript a 2-D array which this isn't. > > [ experiments further ... ] Drat, seems that syntax works in 7.4 but > not 7.3. Dunno if that will help you. I'm using 7.3.4 at the moment and I tried the scenario of using parentheses, which didn't work. I wrote a function in the end to extract it, but it would have been more elegant without it :-( Thanks again Donald ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])