Hi Brenda,

FoxPro performs macro substitution in the string literals. For example,

name = "SomeThing"
lcStr = "Name=&name, "
? lcStr   && Dispalys 'Name=SomeThing, '

To avoid macro substitution you can separate '&' from the variable name as follows

lcStr = "Name=&" + "name, "
* Or in case of URL, you can use encoded character
lcStr = "Name=%26name, "

>I am using the following code to build a URL. NAME is a column name in my table. Even though &name is within quotes, it is picking up the value of the column NAME and inserting the value in the URL. I can not replicate this in the developer, only during execution. Any ideas how I can keep '&name' as a literal?
>
>URL = 'http://www.whitepages.com/search/Find_Person?firstname_begins_with=1&name_begins_with=0&firstname=&name=' + ;
> save_lname + '&city_zip=' + save_zip + '&state_id='