Thanks for the quick response.
----- Original Message -----
> "Donald Fraser" <demolish@cwgsy.net> writes:
> > But when I try something like b[0][0] the passer ignores the second array
> > subscript parameter and returns only a "point".
> You need the extra parentheses because the two subscript operations need
> to work on fundamentally different datatypes --- if you write f1[1][0]
> you are asking to subscript a 2-D array which this isn't.
>
> [ experiments further ... ] Drat, seems that syntax works in 7.4 but
> not 7.3. Dunno if that will help you.
I'm using 7.3.4 at the moment and I tried the scenario of using parentheses,
which didn't work.
I wrote a function in the end to extract it, but it would have been more
elegant without it :-(
Thanks again
Donald
