Marc,

The { is the special escape sequence character I think, from what I remember try using the chr() equivalent for it. Like ??? chr(123) + "E09000..."

>>>Marc,
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>>>How about a little more of a code fragment? It sounds like the expression you are trying to ??? is ill formed.
>>>
>>>>??? returns a syntax error. What am I doing wrong ?
>>
>>Sure! How about:
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>>??? "{E09000;0260,0260,0260,0178|}"
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>>As we say in French "ça ne s'invente pas", ("one does not make that up").
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>>Are you sure you can use the ??? syntax in VFP???
>>
>>Marc
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>Hmm! you can, but it seems to be VFP that does not accept ascii 123 which is the { character. Strangely enough }125 and |124 are accepted.
>
>Marc