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Problem with character sting containing '&&'
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22/04/2003 11:56:47
Mike Sue-Ping
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00780155
Message ID:
00780179
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15
>>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"
Thanks Sergey. That did the trick!!!

Mike
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