It should work either way.

>Isn't necessary to assign the split string to variables? and these to the UpdateNameList property ?
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>>A string litearal in VFP is limited to 255 characters. To avoid this limitation, you can concatenated multiple strings or assign the value in the Init using TEXTNERGE.
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>>	UpdateNameList = "CHANNELID channels.CHANNELID, " + "NAME channels.NAME..."
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