>Nadya, the semi col has been around since the fox 4 dos days, I am surprised it is still in the new generations of VFP. Mind you it has saved my bacon a few times, with trimming and all that stuff and to find out the expression is to large.

Iain,

I'm glad, I now know this, thanks to you and David. John Koziol was recently surprised by Command Window behavior, so I'm curious, am I alone here, who doesn't know this great and simple trick? :)