Garry Kubel was speaking to Stan Helton about Re: # operator 
 SH> Hi, Garry.
 SH>    It's probably a filenumber identifier, but it could be part of
 SH> a variable name. If you post the line of code you found it in...
 GK> Ok, when I find the file again I will post it...
I hate that too! There is a bit of confusion about exactly what the
symbols do in various dialects of Basic. Generally for PowerBASIC the
$ represents compiler instructions and the # is usually a filenumber
identifier.
Stan 
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