Bill,

Text to lcText Textmerge Noshow
lc  
endText

>I'm using VFP 7.0
>
>I would like to feed Text ...EndText a variable that might have Textmerge characters inside it.
>
>Example:
>I would like to store something like this in a memo field
>

>myText .... <<lcValue>> ..... more text
>

>and in a method()
>

>..... myMethod()
>  local lc ,lcText ,lcValue
>  lcValue = <whatever>
>  lc = memo.value
>
>  Text to lcText Textmerge Noshow
>  &lc                && doesn't work
>  endText
>
>     or
>
>  Text to lcText Textmerge Noshow
>  <<lc>>             && doesn't work
>  endText
>

>and lcText would then be
>

>myText .... <whatever> ..... more text
>