As Don pointed out, you can also use STRTRAN() instead of STUFF(). I don't know why I always forget that function :-)

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>Here's a thought: You can determine the position of a "[" and "]" through the AT() function. So, the following loop will scan through all of them. I am assuming a modal form that returns the replacement value:
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>nStartLeft=0
>nStartRight=0
>cMemoText=ALLT(table.memofield)
>cReplacementText=""
>DO WHILE AT(cMemoText,"[") # 0
>   nStartLeft=AT(cMemoText,"[",nStartLeft+1)
>   nStartRight=AT(cMemoText,"]",nStartRight+1)
>   cTextToReplace=SUBSTR(cMemoText,nStartLeft+1,nStartRight-1)
>   DO FORM frmGetReplaceText WITH cTextToReplace TO cReplacementText
>   cTextToReplace="["+cTextToReplace+"]"
>
>***** You need the STUFF function here to stuff cMemoText with
>***** cReplacementTExt....I don't have the manual here and can't
>***** remember the exact command parameters.
>
>   nStartLeft=nStartLeft+1
>   nStartRight=nStartRight+1
>ENDDO
>REPLACE table.memofield WITH cMemoText

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>>In part of my application, it is necessary to allow the user to replace one or more words/phrases in a memo field. The words/phrases to be replaced are enclosed in square brackets. What I want VFP 3.0 to do is "read" each replaceable word/phrase in turn, let the user enter other words/phrase to replace it, then go on to the next replaceable word/phrase.
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>>Any help on resolving this will be appreciated.
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>>Thanks,
>>
>>Alan