Simon,
Strange it also ran under VFP7 SP1 (compile was forced). Then I noticed behaviour was weird (if you click on cell content disappears and reapears when clicked on another cell). Same weirdness also is in VFP6. GetStr() version is stable even in the case sparse = .f., inputmask exists etc.
Cetin

>Hi Cetin
>
>I just tried this in VFP 6.0 SP5 and it worked perfectly. I then tried VFP 7.0 SP1 and it failed as I described.
>
>Simon
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