>Houston, you are correct. George is just restating what you said. He is incorrect in saying that your statement is wrong. He is either overlooking or misunderstanding your term "string translations." In C, the preprocessor directive "#define" is often called a "macro." This terminology is confusing for VFP because it has runtime macros -- &. VFP programmers should think of #define as a pre compile macro.

Hi Albert, many thanks for the backup. I'm also left wondering how George could confuse "string translations" with 'evaluating expressions' - either severe dyslexia or some fiend swapped his cofee for that decaf' stuff! I must confess it took me a while to notice that George and I were pretty much arguing the same point.