Thanks Joe Burke (variable exclude conditional)

Joe,

Thanks for your following response to my question. I'm optimistic that it
will solve my problem.

Ironically, my newsreader (even today) does not display your response but
Google search found it -- so I copied that and pasted here for benefit of
others. It makes me wonder how many other newsreader responses get lost in
this electronic wilderness.

Len,

A typical method to exclude items from a list:

(if (not (member ename PolyList))
(progn...

The specific items contained in (and length of) PolyList are of no concern.
You are just testing the ename of a pline to process against the exclusion
list.

Assuming you might have another list of enames containing potential plines
to process called Lst:

(foreach item Lst
(if (not (member item PolyList))
(progn...

Joe Burke