No politics today just work (darn!). I'm trying to load null values into a field. I thought I remembered doing it once on an HP to the tune of [ DEF fieldname CHAR*nn = "" ]. The double quotes with nothing in between would do the trick. I tried it on the 400 but when I test with Matchpattern I looks as if I'm not there. Don't see it in the Quiz manual - can anyone help. Thanks, George