>Yet another basic question..... I would like to print the following in a report but would like to store the string in a memo field for easier editing. Placing it into a field on the report simply posts the text and doesn’t translate the functions. How should I best do this? Thanks!
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>"I regret to inform you that your Sole Source of Heat permit " ;
>+ "expired on June 30th " + alltrim(str(year(date())))+".  " ;
>+ "Unless you come into our office at 301 W. Alder and renew " ;
>+ "your permit by " + DTOC(DATE() + 14) ;
>+ ", your permit cannot be renewed. Please take care of this " ;
>+ "matter as soon as possible."
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There may be a better of doing this but I think you are going to have to use STRTRAN(). You can place a tag name like ~year and use STRTRAN() to search for it and replace it with the year. The StrTran() can be nested.

?STRTRAN(m.memo,'" + alltrim(str(year(date())))+"',TRANSFORM(YEAR(DATE())))


?STRTRAN(STRTRAN(m.memo,'~year',TRANSFORM(YEAR(DATE()))),'~date14',TRANSFORM(DATE()+14))


Hope this helps.