Right, while Mr @Rad is AWOL and he probably cracking some code for a mailing list , I'll keep this thread going until day of changeover. In the meantime, skunks please bear with this thread. Since am already aware of how and where exceptions work, what is to be used and what exceptions that am testing for. Good coders will ( can't believe am saying this..) create a general rule of the thumb try/catch blocks for most tasks in the code. So here is my question : What would be the correct format for nested TRY-CATCH blocks in the same method? Would it be : a) TRY/CATCH/CATCH/CATCH etc or would it be : b) TRY/CATCH, TRY/CATCH etc Rgds. :-) -- **--If I ever wrote code on a system for the better of consumer freedoms or choice, I'd rather create the complete system with people who share the same views than give out a single line of code to code thieves who will use it to defeat the principles of freedom and choices---2011--Me--**