Biil,
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lcText = TEXTMERGE(memo.value, .T.)

>Hi Sergey,
>When I do that lcText just ends up as "lc"
>I did this as a test
>

>lc = '<<date()>>'
>text to lctext textmerge
>lc
>endtext
>? lctext        && printed lc     not 11/23/03
>

>
>>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
>>>