>>>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

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Agree :) if clist is at hand already. If he has to do another SQL or scan..endscan to collect the list, I vote for doing it in one SQL delete.
What I "sensed" from the question that he was doing :

select SomeField from Sometable into array myArray
* Build clist
delete for inlist(site, &clist)

* And I would do :
delete from myTable ;
 where ;
 site in ;
 (select distinct SomeField from sometable where ...)

Cetin