>>I gave a bad example. The code you suggested gives me a numeric that is not the literal value of column 2
>>
>>

DATE       BATCH
>>01/01/01       A
>>01/01/01       B
>>01/01/01       C

>>
>>This example is better. If is double clicked the second value, I want to store "01/01/01 B" to the memvar.
>

>with thisform.list1
>  lcMemvar= dtoc(.list(.listindex,1))+.list(.listindex,2) && assuming the first column is date and the second is char.
>endwith