http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-26T05:50:20 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/cfml_b18.htm#2003 The & is the concatenation operator. See http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/elemen11.htm for more information. jrunrandy 1 1 2003-09-18T10:40:15 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/cfml_b18.htm#1884 Then, what is "&" surrounding ' varialbe.my_name', and in front of 'variable.my_age'? joonstar 0 0 2003-09-16T01:01:48