I can confirm that. As you pointed out, the workaround is very simple. Anyway it's sloppy coding not to put spaces around language tokens. It makes code much harder to read.


>Run code like the following with your backend:
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private cstr
>cstr='b'
>sqlexec("SELECT * FROM test WHERE ?cstr!='a'")

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>There must be no space between r and !
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>note that the actual query passed to server is
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SELECT * FROM test WHERE 'b'='a'

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>VFP replaces != condition to = condition.
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>Please confirm, can anybody reproduce this ?