>In VFP9 you can use the 0h prefix:
>
>?0h414243="ABC"

But then the 0h prefix denotes a varbinary variable, which will be interpreted as a binary string or as a string interpretation thereof, depending on what's first...

?0h414243
?""+0h414243
c="414243"
?EVALUATE("0h"+c)
?EVALUATE("[]+0h"+c)