>>site = 'HSC'
>>This works:
>>?inlist(site,'xxx','HSC') && returns .T.
>>
>>This does NOT work:
>>clist = "'xxx','HSC'"
>>?inlist(site,clist) && returns .F.
>>
>>I need to have a dynamic list (e.g. clist = ...) so that
>>I can use this code to conditionally delete records. Not
>>sure why this will not work.
>>
>>Any ideas or alternative solutions?
>Why doesn't work and how would work has already been told at its best.
>Alternative solution might be SQL delete. As I read your "conditionally delete" I sensed you first do an SQL to collect the list :)

The following will work:

clist = "'xxx','HSC'"
? inlist(site,&clist)

or

cListOfTestVals = "'xxx','HSC'"
cCmdExpn = "inlist(site," + cListOfTestVals + ')'
? &cCmdExpn

or even better, unless it's being evaluated multiple times, in which case macro expansion once is cheaper than many EVAL()s. The macro expansion is cheaper in a FOR or WHERE clause that's executed against a set of records, where EVAL() would have to fire for each record, but macro expansion would only fire once, with the resultant expression code executed against each record instead.

cListOfTestVals = "'xxx','HSC'"
? EVAL("inlist(site," + cListOfTestVals + ')')
? &cCmdExpn


>Cetin