Hi. try one of these two routines..

vpocdata = ""
go top
do while .not. eof()
vpocdata = vpocdata +vpoc.name+chr(13)
skip
enddo

or

vpocdata = ""
go top
scan
vpocdata = vpocdata +vpoc.name+chr(13)
endscan


HTH.


>I want to build a string containing all the records in a table currently open in the data environment with the alias 'vpoc'
>
>Can I do something like this:
>
>vpocdata = ""
>
>FOR EACH record IN vpoc
> vpocdata = vpocdata + vpoc.name + CHR(13)
>ENDFOR
>
>
>tks!