>>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.

Hi Fabio

Yes I know. Like I said, I was bitten by this a few months ago. I think it was Borislav who put me right.