>>>It'd make more sense to use macro expansion or scripting to drive the operation IMO.
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>>Macro Expansion and Scripting - both are new concepts to me. Where can i read up on these two concepts? Thanks again Ed.
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>Macro expansion has been part of the language. It's the ability to put a piece of code, whether a command, a phrase, an argument, and have it evaluated and executed at runtime. For example:
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cRunMe = 'REPLACE Foo WITH "bar"'
>&cRunMe

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>Scripting - the ability to create and execute code blocks at runtime and execute them dynamically - is a new feature of VFP 7.
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>In both cases, see the OnLine documentation for your version of VFP...

Thank you for that quick lesson:)