>Certainly you have a choice. Remove the semicolons! :)
>lcDoThis = chrtran(m.lcDoThis,';','')

I don't think it's the semicolons. It's the CRLF put in by TEXT/ENDTEXT
lcDoThis = chrtran(m.lcDoThis,';'+CHR(13)+CHR(10),'')

UPDATE: Didn't realize Cathy had posted essentially the same (but better since it included TABS) solution


Actually, I don't see any reason for the semicolons at all.
>Now trying to build a multi-line command:

But this isn't really building a multi-line command (meaning more than one line of code is being executed). It's splitting one line of code on multiple lines of display. The semicolons are not needed

TEXT TO lcDoThis NOSHOW
   cmsg = 'A' + 
   'B'+ 'C'
ENDTEXT
lcDoThis = CHRTRAN(lcDoThis,CHR(13)+CHR(10),"")
&lcDoThis

>>OK thanks, but I don't have the choice. This gives an error (but the Execscript works fine).
>>

>>cmsg = ''
>>TEXT TO lcDoThis NOSHOW
>>     cmsg = 'A' + ;
>>     'B'+ 'C'
>>ENDTEXT
>
>Certainly you have a choice. Remove the semicolons! :)
>
>lcDoThis = chrtran(m.lcDoThis,';','')
>
>>&lcDoThis
>>*Execscript(lcDoThis)
>>Messagebox(cmsg)
>>

>>
>>
>>>Execscript is slower than &.
>>>
>>>>>>I want to build a long command line.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>This works OK:
>>>>>>

>>>>>>TEXT TO dothis
>>>>>>cmsg = 'A' + 'B'+ 'C'
>>>>>>ENDTEXT
>>>>>>
>>>>>>&dothis
>>>>>>?cmsg
>>>>>>

>>>>>>
>>>>>>Now trying to build a multi-line command:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>

>>>>>>
>>>>>>TEXT TO dothis
>>>>>>cmsg = 'A' + ;
>>>>>>'B'+ 'C'
>>>>>>ENDTEXT
>>>>>>
>>>>>>&dothis
>>>>>>?cmsg
>>>>>>

>>>>>>
>>>>>>This gives an error (with or without the semi-colon). Is there a way to build up a command over more than one line?
>>>>>>Cyril
>>>>>
>>>>>Don't use macro substitution. Use EXECSCRIPT() instead:
>>>>>

>>>>>TEXT TO lcDoThis NOSHOW
>>>>>     cmsg = 'A' + 'B'+ 'C'
>>>>>     MessageBox(cmsg)
>>>>>ENDTEXT
>>>>>EXECSCRIPT(lcDoThis)
>>>>>

>>>>
>>>>Thanks for the EXECSCRIPT() suggestion. This works:
>>>>

>>>>cmsg = ''
>>>>TEXT TO lcDoThis NOSHOW
>>>>     cmsg = 'A' + ;
>>>>     'B'+ 'C'
>>>>ENDTEXT
>>>>Execscript(lcDoThis)
>>>>Messagebox(cmsg)
>>>>