actually, such code would be IMO much more problematic in VB6 as VB6 has no shortcut for logical statements, forcing each function to run even in case one of the previous ones returned false - which is in my book one of the worst crimes against programmers assumption from other languages ;-)

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>This was written by someone who did VB6, didn't know VFP, didn't WANT to know VFP and didn't have the testicular droopage to go to a room and ask the accumulated 40 years of experience in Fox how to do something.