>I am converting an EDI translation routine written in Clipper
>to VFP.
>
>Problem:
>Clipper code contains a lot of inline array assignments.
>example: sgmnt_term := { "'", "…" }
>

the assignment operator(:=) in clipper is not accepted in foxpro use equal to sign.

curly brackets({) in foxpro are used for date types, may be you can use a command like store to achieve same result

Hope this helps.