Inscrutable Error with Simple Program

Fred

The program and set up you sent works as I would have intended mine to work.

There is not much different in what I did than what you show. The only real differences

were that I have a one dimensional matrix [simpler] and I did not express the LHS

of the program as a function or the rows(A). Instead I simply embedded this number

in the for statement. My lines are generally as follows.

N= i set to 0

for k E 1 .... cols(Q)

i=i+1 if Q(k) <=> 0 |Q(k) is the column k of Q

[i=i otherwise, or no statement same effect]

i

This would give me N=3, total columns of Q, instead of 2, in my example, with non-zero

elements.

I will try your suggestion and I am sure it will cure my issue.

Thank you,

Paul

Another method?

Mike