Mike,

>PMFJI, but just to make me feel better, are you certain you don't have a field named lcstr in one of the open aliases, and you are never selecting that alias while the code runs?

Your question prompted me to go back and doublcheck that fact. But indeed with in this custom method is the first and only time I am using a reference to "lcStr". And as in my earlier message, I can see the value of lcStr to be RT/DEHYDRATE in the Watch window of Debugger. It's got me baffled and I've worked around it. (something I hate doing.)

Thanks for your checking though.

>>Sergey,
>>
>>>Is it possible that lcStr is padded with spaces on the right (lcStr = "RT/DEHYDRATE ")? In this case ? LIKE("RT/DEHYDRATE", lcStr) OR LIKE("DEHYDRATE", lcStr) will return .F.
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>>I forgot to metion that section of code starts with:
>>

>>  IF !EMPTY(tmpLiquid.rec_servic)
>>	lcStr = UPPER(ALLTRIM(tmpLiquid.rec_servic))
>>    DO CASE...
>>
>>       CASE code
>>    ENDCASE...
>>
>>  ENDIF
>>

>>
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>>>First, I wasn't sure if you where aware about that. Second, when I saw LIKE() w/o wildcard characters I started wondering if you forgot to add them. It all comes down to readability. If you don't need wildcards why use LIKE() function?
>>>Tell you truth I almost never use this function. Instead of LIKE("*DEHYDRATE*", lcStr) I would use ("*DEHYDRATE*" $ lcStr). It's just my personal preference but again I think it makes code more readable. :)
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>>I will keep these suggestions in mind. I may yet go back and take out the LIKE() function. I didn't really "like" it too much either. (no pun intended) ;)