As a beginner, I probably do treat programming as alchemy... especially when something isn't working, I try everything I can think of. I certainly want to make sure I do all I can before posting here (and I've learned to wear my asbestos suit!). ;-)

Yes, I forgot to mention... I tried to print out spec_vars and it was empty after the second call to the page (which, of course, explains why variables later on in that second call are empty). However, when viewing the source at the end of the first call, the specs vars on the page have the appropriate data in them. I seem to be losing my data between the first call and the second call.

Lori

In reply to Re: Re: Sub call isn't returning values by Lori713
in thread Sub call isn't returning values by Lori713

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