>And don't define CR, use local variable instead... Learned recently this from George Tasker...

Nadya,
I think you're taking George's post out of context. IIRC, George posted that you should use a local variable when dealing with loop conditions. You should assign a local variable the value of the constant and then use it in your tight loop. That way, VFP doesn't continyually have to reevaluate the CHR() function.

You don't need to do it when you aren't running through loops or the number of interations is relatively small.

Just my $0.02.