>P.S. An unrelated q. Is there an easy way to invert a char. string? i.e. 'ABCD' to 'DCBA'.

does this work for you? (needs foxtools.fll loaded)

clear

?ReverseStr("Gunnar", 1)

FUNC ReverseStr
	PARA;
		StrToReverse;
		StrDelimiter
	LOCAL ;
		NewString, ;
		i

	NewString = ""
	IF TYPE("StrDelimiter") = "N"
		FOR i=1 TO LEN(StrToReverse) STEP StrDelimiter
			NewString = SUBS(StrToReverse, i, StrDelimiter) + NewString
		ENDFOR
	ELSE
		FOR i=1 TO words(StrToReverse, StrDelimiter)
			NewString = ALLT(wordnum(StrToReverse, i, StrDelimiter)) + NewString
		ENDFOR
		NewString = STRTRAN(NewString, StrDelimiter, "")
	ENDIF
	RETURN(NewString)
ENDFUNC