> Works for me too. Thanks. > I wonder where it says that in the Applescript Language Guide. Beats me, I haven't looked at that for answers for years. I rely on this list and the AppleScript users list. Also, I didn't see the end of Mark's email before I responded, he was suggesting the same thing I was in my second message. >>>If you want to use concatenation make it a list first. set arec to {foo:1, bar:"a"} set alist to {} repeat 3 times set alist to alist & {arec} end repeat alist ES