>>If you are using direct commands then you could simply do the insert, then your problem doesn't even make sense. ie:
>>
>>

>>Create Cursor test (Id Int, dummy Memo)
>>Local ix, lcText
>>
>>Insert Into test (Id, dummy) Values (1, 'Line 1' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) +'line 2')
>>Insert Into test (Id, dummy) Values (2, 'Line 1' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) + ;
>>	'Line 2' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) + ;
>>	'Line 3' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) + ;
>>	'Line 4')
>>
>>Locate
>>Browse
>>

>
>I think this is prepared to be run as a macro, but even then there wouldn't be a problem if macro was
>

Insert Into test (Id, dummy) Values (1, lcLines)

>and the variable lcLines was in scope. But he wants the command (to be macro expanded) containing a string literal with a line break to work... well, that won't work.

I don't understand why one would even want to do that. It is an abuse of macro expansion. Even if one wants to do that, still I can't see the problem (I would never prefer to do but doable):

Text to lcCommand pretext 15 noshow
Insert Into test (Id, dummy) Values (2, 'Line 1' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) + 
	'Line 2' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) + 
	'Line 3' + Chr(13)+Chr(10) + 
	'Line 4')
EndText

&lcCommand