Hello,

I believe Craig is correct. IIRC, the first dot does indeed terminate the macro substitution, and the second one is acting as the actual dot. I had to use this technique several times in some FoxBase+ code.

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>For the life of me I can't remember the reason we needed to use double dots but after talking to Craig Berntson he suggested that one might indicate the end of a macro expansion and the second dot was interpreted as the 'normal' dot used when referring to a table plus field.
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HTH,

Brian