Ok Craig, let me first thank you for the great advice, especially no 2. as its the first time I read this. No 3. I've seen before but in a completely different context and didn't connect the dots yet.
As for your criticism on me, here are the three post I either started of 'Hijacked' as you call it. Now I might have overlooked something but the ONLY advice/explanation given is that
1. brackets (in all there forms) raise stack issues
2. raising stack will prevent an stack error.
http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php ... k+overflow
http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php ... k+overflow
http://forums.rptools.net/viewtopic.php ... k+overflow
And that's the world I'm living in. Now I'm not saying that you have given the advice numerous times before, but until 5 minutes ago I've never seen it. Same goes for the 'backtracking' explanation Ahz has given, thats a first too.
Basically there are two things I would like to see answered when I have a problem:
1. why (does it happen) (thanks Ahz)
2. how (can I solve it) (thanks Craig)
And up to now I've never had those answers. I always got the same response: too many brackets. Which, by the way, is why I posted my earlier post: if you completely remove all the brackets and just leave a string, then MT overflows even sooner. I know you can't make that comparison so easily, which is why I left the conclusion open.
Anyway thank you for the advice however I'm still of the opinion that your criticism towards me is unduly, Craig.