>>Tom,
>>Many times one person's "bug" is really a "feature" that's in the code due to backward compatibility, etc. Can you post the nature of your problem, and if it really is, then possibly one the MS UT participants can forward it to the appropriate area for analysis.
>>
>>Rick
>
>Sure, the bug is simple. The ATC() function fails if the first argument is longer than 255 characters. Note that AT() works fine. I discovered that the bug goes all the way back to FP Dos.
>
>a = replicate("X", 300)
>b = a
>? ATC(b, a) && returns 0.

Tom,
While I agree this is a bug and it should be corrected, I recommend using a combination of UPPER() and AT() in most case-insentive tests. In VFP 6, ATC() is over 20X slower. In VFP 7, the difference was reduced to 15X slower.

Just my $0.02.