Actually, my boss and Ko just pointed me to AERROR() which does exactly what I need.

Thanks,

Michelle

>Michelle,
>
>I undersood, what you mean. Unfortunatelly, there is no such function in VFP.
>
>The simplest way to imitate it, though, is:
>
>

>private pcErrMsg
>on error pcErrMsg=message()
>error myNumber
>?pcErrMsg
>on error
>

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