>>>What is want to do is this....
>>>
>>>FOR i = 1 TO orequest.forms.count
>>> lcfoxname = orequest.forms(i).name
>>> IF TYPE(lcfoxname) # "U" && Fox knows what this is
>>> &lcfoxname = orequest.forms(i).item()
>>> ENDIF
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>ENDFOR
>>>
>>>Is this posssible? I thought I would ask before I lost all of my hair testing and debugging ASP.
>>
>>I'd avoid the macro expandsion by:
>>
>>

FOR i = 1 TO orequest.forms.count
>>   IF TYPE('orequest.forms[i].name') # 'U'
>>      STORE orequest.forms[i].item TO (orequest.forms[i].name)
>>   ENDIF
>>ENDFOR
>>
>>or, better:
>>
>>FOR EACH form IN oRequest.forms
>>   IF TYPE(form.name) # 'U'
>>      STORE form.item TO (form.name)
>>   ENDIF
>>ENDFOR

>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>John S. Huddleston
>Is this the correct way to use request.forms ?

Probably not; what exactly are you trying to do? The syntax is correct, assuming that the forms collection contains a member item, but if Item is a collection, as I'd expect, it's not passing you a string. See my follow-up message, since you're trying to stick an object where vfp expects to find a character string.

Clarify what you want to do.