Bob,

As far as I know, the & in fox pro is called an ampersand Macro.

It states that the & must be followed immediately by the name of the characte memvar.

As an example of usage; and you may have already tried this method is:

B = "SomeFile INDEX CustNo"
USE &B EXCLUSIVE

The actual execution is seen by Fox Pro as:

USE SomeFile INDEX CustNo EXCLUSIVE.



Hope this helps


Narrad