Dear Bruce, Garry, John F Hall and Joan Casellas

Thank you so much for helping me with the syntax for selecting records.

Bruce and Garry

The solution offered by both of you worked perfectly.

John - there is a problem with the DO If - function - looks like it does not like string variables.

I also tried by recoding 'involvementtype' to a numeric. But still problems with Do If ...

I will try to run it again later when i have the time.

Joan - I have many more variables in my data file based on which i have to do some more analysis so although I did a test run on the syntax you sent me I cannot use it at the moment.

Again i will try and run it later when i have the time.

However the method you have suggested actually has given me a clue about another problem i am facing with other data.

Thanks once again.

cheers Thara Vardhan

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