>SNIP
>>I get the syntax error in both VFP6 and VFP7. What results do you get?
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>Rick,
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>I tried similarly and got error on both too.
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>My guess was that it *could* have been compiled on-the-fly in VFP6 but suppose that would be evident in theprogram.

I dunno, Jim. At the moment it's a mystery to me why it works in his app under VFP6. That's why I asked him to post the code that assigns the value of the memo field to his memvar. You'd expect a simple x = myTable.cMemoField command, but maybe it's being run through a parser that strips off the semi-colon / carriage-return / line-feed characters, in which case it could be that something in the parser is working under VFP6 but not under VFP7. It'll be interesting to see what results he gets if he runs the little test program I posted.