Hi Fred

I found the problem. It has to do with how the properties are interpreted when entered in the properties window. If I enter .T. the property is set to a logical type which I do no want. If I enter ".T." the property is a character type but includes the quotation marks which I do not want. What I want is a character string of three characters .T.

I did not realize that when I entered the value with quotes the quotes would be part of the string and that is what caused the problem. I should have realized this because I have been caught by this several times in the past.

Simon

>>I had the following two properties set as follows:
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>>This.cWhereBase="PID=' '.Or.PID$This.cOpenNodes"
>>This.cWhereUser=".T."
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>>The following code fails with an error message (Function argument value, type or count is invalid.):
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>>Scan While .T. for Evaluate(This.cWhereBase+".And."+This.cWhereUser)
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>>However if I change This.cWhereUser as follows everything works fine:
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>>This.cWhereUser="1=1"
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>>In the first case in the debugger evaluate(This.cWhereUser) returns at character type expression of '.T.' when I expected a logical value.
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>>Is this a bug or just the way the evaluate function works? It seems like it did not evaluate the ".T."
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>>Thanks
>>Simon
>
>Seems to work OK for me when I try it.