>I'm reading in a value from an INI file, and it's string. Not sure why CAST() wouldn't
>handle this.
>
>
>>It does if you remove quotes. I guess the string "1" is not equivalent to .T.
>>
>>>Why doesn't this return .T.?
>>>
>>>

>>>? CAST("1" AS Logical)
>>>

String is not same as number. Try CAST(VAL("1") AS Logical)