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In the end your right again Mac,

The routine does not work. It only works in the vds app itself and not in a compiled exe. the " " work around i put in allowed the routine to run but would ...

not using the "quoted" variables on the list in my code would not work the same, because it would return the values of the variables instead the names of the variables. the reason for the quotes is to ...

haha, I know.

I wanted to try it because it made the routine alot easier to write and I am glad it worked. good to know eh?

was the main reason why i posted to code, i hadn't seen any sour ...

Scratch that found a work around. Kind of an oddity but here is:

Orignal Problematic Line
PARSE %%VAR,%%VALUE

New Working Line
PARSE " "%%VAR,%%VALUE

all is good Smile

oi! this routine works only VDS environment app not in a compiled exe. *back to drawing board*

Thanks Mac your answers are always swift and to the point.

Serge, also a good suggestion which I would have used if I had control of the start data. Writing a companion program and it's just workin ...

Hi, I am trying to sort a list of data:
example:
8,yadayadayda
9,yadayadayda
10,yadayadayda
11,yadayadayda

and when I apply the LIST SORT Command (vds4) the list becomes like this:

10,yaday ...

Thank you very much. I thought I read something along those guidelines before but I could not find the info anywhere in VDS help or via several searches on this forum.

I very much appreciate it =]

I am unable to find any functions to faciliate adding command line paramters to my application. I am running VDS 4 and am wondering if this is supported by my current version of VDS and if not, is the ...