Thanks for your reply and I'll ahve a looka at Transform.

I've only ever used & for macro substtitution. What are your reservations and what it the benefit of using Evaluate instead ?

regards,

Gerard




>>Hi.
>>I am trying to get the property 'Value' as a string so that I can subsequently macro expand it .
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>>I have on my base classes a property set up called MyProp and typically I might have in this:
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>>Balnace = 500
>>Price > 100
>>Country = 'IRL'
>>.T.
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>>I then want to take this property into a variable as a string and mix it with some other code , and then macro expand it .
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>>If I do :
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>>MyString = MyTextBox.MyProp I cannt then do MyNewsting='abc' + space(1) + Mystirng because if , for istance, MyProp was = .t., it is treated a a logical variable. In this case, I want to get the String--> .T. into another field reather than the logical .T.
>>
>>
>>(I know I can always surround the property with quotes and then remove the quotes, but I want to avoid this if possibel)
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>>Any syggestions ?
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>>Regards,
>>
>>Gerard
>
>Gerard,
>Use transform() to convert them to string representations.
>PS: Think twice before using macro expansion. Evaluate() might be what you need.
>Cetin