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>>Hi Kile,
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>>It indicate that it's a memory variable. The reason for it goes all the way back, I think, to the original dBase which had only 12 work areas (A through L). These days you don't see it as much with Hungarian notation being in favor.
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>Actually, original dBase had 2 work areas. You could SELECT PRIMARY or SELECT SECONDARY.

Hi Craig,

Thanks for the heads-up (JimB too). It's been so long since then, I'd forgotten about how workareas were involved. I was probably thinking about FoxBASE+ 2.10, which had 10 workareas (A-J).