Hire me. I have 30 years of experience VB included.

I admire your intention to make it work. My first impression is that there are two optiones after an initial preparation: The initial prep is to study the application how it is working right now, ... because it seems that nobody wants to explain it to you. Option 1: start programming in small steps which allow to present it to the boss. Each step allows for correcciones/adjustments. Option 2: find an open source project which serves your needs. Install, learn and present it to the boss. Explanation: - I added the preparation because even the boss does not know what he wants. I have been in similar projects. You have to study the "actual" situation thoroughly. I did not do that, and the project took several months longer, because the adjustments took much time ! - Option 1: takes much time. Explain to the boss ! - Option 2: Gives you a quick start ! I have experience with this one too. A project which costs several years to develop, took me some months to implement. The users have a lot of requests, but hey ;) easy to add features, because the source is included and as a programmer, you know: we can program almost anything. The example I refer to is a web-application: programmed in php, with mysql database running on apache.

Yes Joe, I agree with you. Your solucion is the best one. I never programmed it otherwise. Only when the size goes over some multiple of 1000 bytes I decide to allocate heap memory. And yes: some programmers don´t even know why. _______________________________________

Pascal, Python y Ada.

And I did this once in C, also took me long to figure it out: for (i=0; i <= ....; i ++); { }

¿ Are you sure you haven't multiple records with the same values ? When you have 100 records with these values......you'll have this result.