You don't have to use quotes in the samples you posted.

>The code that I have inherited is full of things like
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>USE myTable ALIAS myAlias
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>and then code such as
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>SELECT 'myAlias' ---- rather than SELECT myAlias
>REPLACE myField WITH myValue IN 'myAlias'
>etc.
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>This doesn't seem to cause any problems, but I did find a problem with a similar construct
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>SET PROCEDURE TO 'procdir\proc1','procdir\proc2'
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>When the project builder came across this line it only pulled proc1 into the project while
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>SET PROCEDURE TO 'procdir\proc1'
>SET PROCEDURE TO 'procdir\proc2' ADDITIVE
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>and
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>SET PROCEDURE TO procdir\proc1,procdir\proc2
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>got both of them
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>Are there any reasons to use strings (maybe it made it more clear to him) and does anybody know of any other gotchas from using them?
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>Thanks......Rich