I am afraid that the syntax like database!table.fieldname is appropriate in the SQL like statements only.

Try plain lccontent=database!table.fieldname instead of
lccontent=table.fieldname to see the behavior.

>To all,
>
>Well the title says it all. This started when I did an
>ALLTRIM([database]![table].[fieldname]) and got a "Function name is missing )" error.
>
>On further investigation "? [database]![table].[fieldname]" gets you a "Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword" error.
>
>I don't get it. [database]![table].[fieldname] is as specific a field defintion as you can get... VFP should be able to recognize it.
>
>Am I missing a system setting or something?
>
>Regards,
>Thom C.