tom, ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< > From: Tom Dell'Aringa > > [...] I've never had a need to cast values. ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< apparently you've never worked with form field values when you needed them represented as numbers and not strings. .jeff ------------------------------------------------------ Jeff Howden - Web Application Specialist Resume - http://jeffhowden.com/about/resume/ Code Library - http://evolt.jeffhowden.com/jeff/code/