Jim,
Your suggestion works! Thanks a million.
>Dmitry,
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>No this is probably not something weird, it is probably that the & is a reserved character in VFP that does macro expansion even whne it is inside of quotes. So how do you deal with it? You break up your strings into pieces a=that keep the & from ever being next to another character as in;
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>lcVar = STRTRAN(lcMyOtherVar, "&" + "amp;", "&" + "new;")
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>This way you never run into a problem becasue there is variable named amp somewhere and VFP tries to macro the varaiable when it sees "&".
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>As an example try running this code;
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>amp = "My best work"
>? "&"
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