Simon,

The VFP parser is quite literal when it parses a line of code, if it sees && at any point in the line it ignores the rest of the line.

It does not pay attention to the fact that you had the && in a string literal. It sees the line of code as this:

lcTxt = "

which is an invalid statement.

This also extends to ¯os which will expand inside a string literal, which has always annoyed me. Literals should be sacrosanct.

m = "i6"
lcX = "m&m"
? lcX && you don't get the candy, you get the British spy agency instead

>If you try any of the following you get an error in VFP 7 and VFP8.
>
>lcTxt="&&"