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>>Then just do pre-processing on your cursor instead. May be it would be quicker.
>
>OK, I'll try.
>However, is there a way to embed a function in a VFP-8 report?
>Thanks
>
>Ed

If you call your report from a form, you can create a form's method and use it in report as

iif(vartype(thisform) = 'O', thisform.MyMethod(myField), MyOldFunction(myField))

Perhaps there could be better ideas.