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[RoyKMathur]

I have a very large and overly complicated rexx program where the code is combining multiple variable values into a stem name. Is there a way to determine whether the variable name is already defined? For example:

If variableexists(env.table.index) then ...

[kolusu]

RoyKMathur,

Assuming you don't have any special characters in the stem variable you can use VALUE to check if it existed

[RoyKMathur]

Thanks kolusu!

[arnold57]

Why not use SYMBOL('env.table.index') which will be 'VAR' if defined and 'LIT' if not.

P.S. For me VALUE(VALUE(CKSTR)) yields 'ROY' in Kolusu's example.

[RoyKMathur]

Nice solution!