Evan,

From 2.x days I *never* prefix a field name, on the basis that there is an excellent chance that real USERs will see such names and I don't want to confuse or even bother them with "technical" crap.

Yes, in VFP we can now more easily change the titles of columns and the like, but why make it so you even have to bother?

Cheers,

Jim N

>>Precisely. If your LOCAL declaration for local vars is in your method or proc header anyway (where it should be) then the "l" prefix is superfluous.
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>Not entirely, John. The prefix is the way I differentiate between a variable and a table field. Of course, my naming convention for table fields uses the field type as the first character. Maybe *that's* gone by the wayside, too...
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>Evan Pauley