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>THanks
>eric.

You can pass a memo field by value to a function or procedure it will always pass by value. There may be situations where your expectation of pass by reference side effects cause a problem, not because it's a memo field, but because fields and variables behave differently. For example:

create table temp (MemFld M)  && Char field would do as well
append blank
replace MemFld WITH 'abcdef'
local cVar
cVar = MemFld
? MemFld, cVar && They're the same
SET UDFPARMS TO REFERENCE
DO MyFunc WITH MemFld
? MemFld, cVar && still the same
DO MyFunc WITH cVar
? MemFld, cVar && different

FUNCTION MyFunc
PARAMETER cInString
cInString = 'fedcba'
RETURN