>Hi William,
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>Since you're interested in what others have done... I ran into the same problem when building SQL statement on the fly to use in SPT. What I did to work around was use STRTOFILE() to gather all of the syntax, and then FILETOSTR() when I passed it to SQL. Worked for me.
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>Take Care
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This seems like the easiest approach, Thanks. You look at something and know there is a better way but just can't see it... Unfortunately, this project is done in VFP 5, but I can implement the STRTOFILE and FILETOSTR functions pretty easy using fcreate, fopen, fputs, and fclose commands. Hi ho, hi ho, its off to code I go......