>>Use == for equivalent or *really equal*. As far as VFP is concerned, the two strings are equal up to the point of the shorter string.
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>As long as the shorter string is on the right side of the equal sign...
So I guess the Communitive Property of Equality doesn't hold in VFP *g*.
Larry Miller
MCSD
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