>Craig, that certainly would explain the 'anomaly'. I didn't know [] could be used as string delimiters (as opposed to '' or ""). My reference materials do not seem to address this (but I tried this out, and you are absolutely correct!). When would you want to use [] rather than the usual quotes?

If you string contain single and double quote, you need to use another string delimiter. VFP provides three different ways of string delimiters. I don't know any other language with this ability (could be my knowledge hole, though)