>>>Hi Gang...
>>>When I do a FoxPro FIND, searching for \temp
>>>it won't find it !! Yet it will find \ or it will find temp.
>>>Why not \temp ??
>>>Thanks!
>>Interesting. \t is a code for "tab" in certain nomenclatures. Try searching for "\\temp" and see if it finds "\temp".
>It found \\temp..... so you must be correct !!!
>Thanks!


No problem. It's interesting that VFP is doing some (what's called) "escape code" parsing there. I don't think I knew it did that.

Here's a list of common escape codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_sequences_in_C

    \a – Bell (beep)
    \b – Backspace
    \f – Formfeed
    \n – New line
    \r – Carriage return
    \t – Horizontal tab
    \\ – Backslash
    \' – Single quotation mark
    \" – Double quotation mark
    \0 – CHR(0)
    \ooo – Octal representation
    \xdd – Hexadecimal representation

The \\ is converted to a single \ via the escape code.