How do you know that lcValue is an empty string? Maybe it only looks like an empty string but has some non-printable character in it.

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>After installing SQL Server 2005, my VFP projects started to give some errors, on my lines with EMPTY() function.
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>It seems that EMPTY() doesn't return .t. if the variable is "".
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>Example:
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>IF EMPTY(lcValue)
> * It's entering here if lcValue = .f. but not if lcValue = ""
>ENDIF
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>Any idea? Could it be any property of remote views or cursors...?
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>Best regards,
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>Ricardo Almeida