Edward,

>>Ed,
>>
>>So you're saying that if I had a memo field with the following in it:
>>SELECT foobar
>>ln_count = 0
>>SCAN WHILE foobar.item = "TEST"
>> ? foobar.description
>> ln_count = ln_count + 1
>>ENDSCAN
>>? ln_count
>>
>>That the following code would run it correctly through macro expansion?
>>
>>for n=1 to memlines(memofield)
>> cCommand=mline(memofield,n)
>> &cCommand.
>>endfor
>>
>>I tried something similar, but it didn't work. It generates an error when you try to macro expand the initial loop line. Any way around that?
>
>This code was tested before posted. You probably have syntax error inside memo field code.

This can't work. You would get a nesting error when &cCommand came out as the SCAN line - a SCAN without an ENDSCAN. The same would be true of any kind of looping construct.

I keep meaning to find time to look at CodeBlock to see how it handles this.

Matt.