>Hi Sergey
>
>(sheepish grin)
>
>You're right - I've been bitten by the comments after problem again. I excised the comments for the post for brevity.
>
>Man, you're good! even finding errors when the example's not complete! :-)
>
>Thanks again
>

This is a VFP bug, the ";" is within the comment and cannot join two lines.