Hello, >I just finished converting/re-writing a FPW program into VFP5, and the original programmer used [] around strings. VERY hard to read, particularly as there were many arrays interspersed with the strings. Guess you can add me to the 'bad programmer' Ahem, personally, I'm using only square brackets around strings. It's because I don't like constructions like "'blah blah blah'" when it's time to make macro substitution or something like. But, I would like outline it, it is up to developer's taste how to write the code.