>>>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.
>
>I like to think of it as a feature <bg>

Every bug is a feature until it is not removed.