Now, I absolutely agree with your statements. This is why I am so baffled by the situation and get this...it works now using the simple execute(@args) but I swear on everything I know that I did *not* make any changes to the code with the exception of changing to '@args' from the join() statement. However, that works now. It is all very strange and indeed I bet that I will stumble across this little phenomenon again somewhere. Maybe it was the command line args I was using *shrug*. If you read my other posts you will see that @args was most certainly giving off the correct number of elements (I pasted a few outputs where I was trying to show that...they are numbered elements).

Anyway, I sincerely appreciate all of your comments.

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- Jim
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