Oh, is that documented in foxpro help? I looked up "->" in help and not there either. The "->" references a field in another workarea and I sometimes use it.
>Timothy,
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>They are the default delimiters that mark where a variable output item is to be inserted into the text stream.
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>>Thanks Vladimir, that did the trick! by the way, what do the <<>> do in this line < < ThisForm.Edit1.Value>> ?
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