Jim,

99.99% of the time I'm doing string tests for equality I use == which is SET EXACT and operand order independent.

>Is this still true?
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>oldvalue = ""
>value = "anystring"
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>oldvalue = value (returns .T.)
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>I thought this problem was fixed long ago, but I just ran across a situation where it appears the problem was not fixed.
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>I SET EXACT ON still the cure?
>
>regards,