>I have working with VFP all my career, and never noticed the Normalize() function. I could have saved myself hours of work if I had. Thank you.

I remember stumbling upon it while looking for something else in the then help.dbf... in 1989. I ran a few expressions through it and gained some understanding on how the parser works and what it does. I guess it helped some later. Well, we'll never know how it would have gone if I didn't find it so early on.