>When I worked with Clipper one thing that I liked about it was the possibility to add somethhing to a variable like this:
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>nCounter += 1
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>which means nCounter = nCounter + 1
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>Is there something similar to this in VFP?

Nope = there's no autoincrementing/decrementing assignment operator. You can always write a little INC() function to increment and return the value, or pass by ref and increment the variable directly.