Hi Graig,

I provide detailed explanation in the article I pointed Jos to . Unfortunately your explanation is incorrect.

>Hmm.. no one really explained what is happening....
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>When comparing strings in VFP, the comparison continues to the end of the string on the left, comparing character by character.
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>>TA = "Some chars"
>>? TA > ""          
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>>The above returns .F. Why? A non-empty string should surely be greater than an empty string?