Thanks Jim,

I had thought of that too, but it happened in various different methods and different lines. Turns out an include file redefined DELETE!

>Do you have an unprintable character somewhere in the line, or the line before or the line after?
> Might you have a semi-colon on the line before?
>
>That's about all I can think of.
>
>good luck
>
>>Hi,
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>>recently I started getting a syntax error when coding in a method on a form. The code I am trying to use is:
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>>DELETE ALL IN MyTable
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>>When I close the method, I get a VFP Compile error: Syntax Error.
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>>The confusing thing is that I am pretty sure I use this code all over the place, so why should it start giving me a syntax error now?
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>>FWIW, if I do it in the command window the command works.
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>>Any ideas what I am missing?