Understood. But I hope you can understand my need to defend myself. Also, I did not intend for a moment to seem to have the following attitude: ["WAAAAH! The evil VFP has a bug because it behaves exactly as it's documented to do, not the way I wish it would, and I'm too damned lazy to look to see if it supposed to work this way!"]. Sorry that it came across that way. It's just that early on in VFP, I got used to the idea that properties sometimes work a little differently than other memory variables, and the store-the-Property-to-a-variable solution to that problem got filed away in my mind without a whole lot more thought to it. It wasn't enough of a PITA for me to spend much more time considering.

At any rate, thanks for sparing me the trout <s>.

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Harsh? Moi? I don't remember breaking out whips, chains or a large trout...

I've developed low tolerance for people who overlook something that should come up and clearly explain why things bite your butt every time you use them. The docs on macro-expansion clearly explain that '.' is a delimiter, and give an example of where this affects macro expansion. I understand the reason that things get overlooked (caffeine deficiency in the early AM, a cow flew by and distracted me, or even it's tough keeping a gallon of knowledge in a shotglass of still functional brainmatter (a frequent problem here)). I -am- totally sick of "WAAAAH! The evil VFP has a bug because it behaves exactly as it's documented to do, not the way I wish it would, and I'm too damned lazy to look to see if it supposed to work this way!" Perhaps I should be more annoyed with Francisco, but there's an overwhelming temptation for me to have simply replied: RTFM because it's there in black and white, and I'm freaking tired of being a substitute for reading the On-Line Help Docs!!!