He was using only VFP version 5, so no EXECSCRIPT() function for him. Also no compiling on the fly (version 6 ). I was trying to work something out that might do the trick. :)

>I thought that was what the new ExecScript() function was for.
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>From the help file.
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>ExecScript Enables you to run multiple lines of code from variables, tables, and other text at runtime.
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>ExecScript(cExpression [, eParameter1, eParameter2, ...])
>Parameters
>cExpression
>Represents the text, a variable, type string, or memo to be executed as code.
>eParameter1, eParameter2, …
>Optional. Specify parameters passed to a script that has a parameter statement in first line.
>Return Values
>The return value is the value returned by the script in cExpression. If the script returns no value, Visual FoxPro returns .T.
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>Remarks
>ExecScript( ), unlike macro expansion, provides the same effect as selecting several lines of code in the command window then pressing the Enter key.
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>>>>Hi.
>>>>Is it possible to execute a program wich source code is in a memo field of a table??? How??
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>>>>TIA
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>>>This is a bit messy but you might try STRTOFILE() to send the memo contents to 'xyz.prg' and then just DO xyz.prg
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>>actually COPY MEMO will work to send memo contents to a file, just assign a prg extension to it