>>>>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.

A bug becomes a feature when it's documented:

* command
Remarks
Place a semicolon (;) at the end of each comment line that continues to a following line.

;)