Thanks very much Tom,

Much appreciated. I was able to work this out eventually, but I had to
rearrange the structure of all the logic.




"Tom Ogilvy" wrote in message
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? true and false and false or true
True
? true and false and true or false
False

I believe it evaluates from left to right, to in the first case

True and False is False then

False and false = False

then
false or true = True
so true is the result

in the second case

True and false = False
False and true = False
False or False = False

Probably need to be specific

If (UCase(z(i, 1)) < "CS" And UCase(z(i, 1)) < "") And
(UCase(.Cells(intPos,
8)) = "CS" Or UCase(.Cells(intPos, 8))) = "" Then


or whatever you intent is.

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Regards,
Tom Ogilvy



"AD108" wrote in message
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I can't figure out why the following expression is evaluating to True when
UCase(z(i, 1)) is equal to ""
What am I missing here. Thanks in advance for any help.

If UCase(z(i, 1)) < "CS" And UCase(z(i, 1)) < "" And
UCase(.Cells(intPos, 8)) = "CS" Or UCase(.Cells(intPos, 8)) = "" Then