>Just a correction, I know that you can't check it right now but VFP9 extends the PRETEXT flag, that way you can have a command w/o need to STRTRAN() it after that:
>

>  text to lcSelect noshow PRETEXT 15
>       Select bp_eng.engkod, bp_ten.t_szam, bp_ten.tcs_szam,
>              bp_ten.tipus, bp_ten.suly, bp_ten.ttav, bp_ten.kszam, bp_ten.ktav
>       From bp_eng
>       LEFT JOIN bp_ten ON ALLTRIM(bp_eng.engkod) ==  ALLTRIM(bp_ten.engkod)
>       Where bp_eng.engkod == "UE00000106"
>       into cursor temp2
>endtext
>? lcSelect
>

>
>PRETEXT expressions are:
>

>1  Eliminate spaces before each line.
>2  Eliminate tabs before each line.
>4  Eliminate carriage returns, for example, blank lines, before each line.
>8  Eliminate line feeds. && New in VFP9
>

>

Right, thanks. Still need to remove ; if we use the original code, though, and want to be able to run this select in command window first.