It appears to work.....
I did this:

IF LASTKEY()=ASC('-')
thisform.Caption=thisform.Caption+"-"
ENDIF

But, this works equally well

case nKeyCode=45
thisform.Caption=thisform.Caption+"-"

Are you aware of any advantage of one over the other?

Many thanks,
Greg


>It is 45. You can do ? INKEY(10) from the command window to verify.
>
>>I'm building an incremental search. One of the fields is an 18 character field that contains part numbers like 4505BCC5576-A11145. I can incrementally search until I hit the dash (-).
>>
>>Is there an inkey() value for the dash (-)?
>>If not how can this be handled?
>>
>>I'm trapping the keys entered in the KeyPress event of this textbox and replacing the forms caption with the letters/numbers as they are entered, then using =seek to incrementally search.
>>
>>Many thanks,
>>Greg