Might be worth having a look at this too Perfect Sum Problem (Print all subsets with given sum) - GeeksforGeeks[^]

Thanks for that, that was where I was trying to get to :thumbsup: When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman

And gone... :-D Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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Don't cast. Use polymorphism instead. Declare the methods you need in MyBaseClass and override them in MyClass. Calling baseClassList[0].SomeMethod() will cause the correct override to execute. Ciao, luker

Hi Luc, generally I would agree with you with regard to adding a table rather than adding columns, but in this case I do not anticipate adding any other languages. In Zimbabwe we have three official languages, namely English, Shona, and Ndebele, and so I am only going to support those three languages right from the outset, with English being the default. Many thanks for your input though. Live for today. Plan for tomorrow. Party tonight!

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Hi I am using MySql, querying it from VB.Net. deStart and dteEnd are VB variables. MySql does not like VB date variables, and so it is best to convert to date in your SQL Query.

In the MySqlException Class you have a Number Property that returns an int containting the MySql Error Code (The ErrorCode Property Returns the HResult) but that could be all of nearly 4000 codes, depending on the specific error (i.e 1049 - Unknown Database Error, 1045 - Access Denied Error) and to check for these seems overboard really. I like your idea of adding a property to my custom exceptions so that in the calling function I only need to trap one error instead of 2, although I can't see it helping me when I trap the original error unless I can get the MySql connector to actually throw my custom exception (impossible ?). I don't really know to be honest, but many thanks for your input.