Hmmm plot thickens. In my main program I got it to work today using ARRAYREAD ARRAY,[DEC VARIABL] AND THEN LCDOUT $FE,$1, DEC VARIABLE... The strange thing is that it would work the first time around in the menu I made. Then when you try and enter another number into the array it wouldn't work. So I added a FOR loop at the beginning of the code to load the array with "0" that seemed to clear out the array and now it works every time. But in the example I gave above which is no different then my main code I can't get it to work. Although I have it working it still bothers me as to why. Thanks for your help.