Hi Jim,

I've been storing compiled FXP files in memo fields since the days of FPD 2.0, extracting them with COPY MEMO, and running them -- never had a problem (at least, until I changed the code and forgot to put the newly compiled FXP in the table :-D --- )

Don't know if that's an option here, but if so, it might be another way out...

>>Does anybody know how to run code that is stored in a memo field in a table? The code isn't just one line either but may be an entire procedure or function. I considered saving the contents of the memo field to a temporary prg and running that but there has to be a more elegant solution.
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>Mark,
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>Chcek teh files here for a reference to codeblock, that will help you in what you are trying to do. Short of using Codeblock, in version prior to VFP 6.0 SP3, you cannot run a PRG in the runtime environment because ther3e is no compiler to compile the code in the runtime.
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>SP3 added the COMPILE command to the runtime library, so you can:
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>COPY MEMO MYMemo TO Temp.prg
>COMPILE Temp.prg
>DO Temp
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