Frank,
I don't know if there is a bug number for this but I am attaching two really small bits of code which show it up. It's the only 'genuine' bug I have ever really come across in gpc. Basically, the globally defined string doesn't seem to get any length so whenever something is assigned to it, the contents vanish.
Regards
David Wood QinetiQ Farnborough
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