;snip
? "checking keys"
$ReturnCode = EXISTKEY("Somekeyhere")
$ReturnCode
IF @ReturnCode = 0
? "KeyFound!"
;snip

The output is something like:
checkingkeys2
Keyfound

now surely the "2" after the message is the $ReturnCode value, which does not = 0, so why does the if statement execute?

please help, this is causing havoc with my scripts

Thanks,

Mark

Before we start... you're code...

IF @ReturnCode = 0

did you mean to say this...

IF $ReturnCode = 0

Shawn.

It was that. I think I got mixed up when changing from checking @ERROR to saving the value in $ReturnCode.

I must have checked that bit of the script a dozen times.

Thanks

Mark

We all do it now and then !

Shawn.