Chris,
I did not think FormCalc supported what I needed but I was hoping I was wrong and therefore hoped to avoid having to query the field directly because the area I am working over basically equates to a 2 dimensional array (but its is not actually one) with a considerable number of fields, I was hoping not to have to hard code the field names for direct access, but if I must, I must, since in need FormCalc functions in part of my validation ( I use parse and format, as well as R&Ltrim) before the calculations.
I check page 23 for the FormCalc reference guide which comes with 7.0 and it talks about how to access elements in a tree, not the syntax of a for loop. If you have a simple example that would suffice.
Thanks
Ben