>Hi All,
>
>I am using VFP7 SP1 and am having a problem creating a character sting variable that contains two ampersand characters.
>
>If I do the following from the command window, I get an error "Command contains unrecognized phrase/keyword"
>
>

>lcText = "something && test"
>

>
>Anyone know how to avoid this?
>
>TIA
>
Mike,

VFP considers it inline comment. Spliting string literal is one of the way around it.

lcText = "something &" + "& test"