This may well have to do with the reserved letters A-J for the ten original work areas allowed by xBase and the letter m is reserved as m.lastname (mvar).

Tom


>hi, every body
>I meet a strange problem in VFP 7.I declare a Class using
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set classlib to myclass
>store createobject ("myclass") to a
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>but when I launch a Method in the class
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>a.GetSqlData("Select * from txl order by name","temp")
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>I always get a error message "Syntax Error"
>If I change the variable 'a' to 'a1' and launch
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>a1.GetSqLData("......")
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>I can get what I need.
>A summary below is which single letter can't use:
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>a,b,c,....j and m
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>
>when I use 'm' as variable, I get another error message "File 'getsqldata.prg' doesnt exist"
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>I have never met this question in VFP 5/6 , Anybody has some idea?
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>TIA, Have a nice day!