>>>I cannot seem to figure out how to call a procedure from a report which basically concatenates fields into one long string which I can then print out at the bottom of the report.
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>>>I have tried using a report variable, which works until you get beyond 255 characters. It was suggested that I call a function (which I would put into my scaffold.prg) which would do the concatenation, and then I could plop the whole darned string at the bottom of my report.
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>>>I've tried calling this procedure from a non-printing field in the report CatString(field1+field2), but it never seems to call the procedure.
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>>>Any advise?
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>>>TIA
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>>Put the call in a printing field, as long as the function returns the value to print.
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>Ahhhh.... If the field doesn't print, the call won't get executed? I'll give it a try.

Correct. If you have some kind of function that you need to execute, but it doesn't return anything to print, make sure it returns an empty string, ie: "".