Hi Nick,

I've read through some of the other responses and have another (possibly long winded) possibility.

I have a pseudo-command line utility that I use for maintenance in my apps. You enter a line of code and it runs it.

The way I do it is to build each line as a string and then use macro sub. to run it.

Lets say you have a memo field (MyCode, in a table called MyProcs) that reads:

LOCAL lcMessage
lcMessage = "Test"
=MESSAGEBOX(lcMessage)

You then use a bit of code like this to read each line and fire it.

*-- Code Fragment Begins
LOCAL lnLines, lnThisLine, lcCmd

*-- Determine Lines of Code
lnLines = MEMLINES(MyProcs.MyCode)

IF lnLines <= 0
RETURN
ENDIF

*-- Loop through and fire commands
FOR lnThisLine = 1 TO lnLines
lcCmd = ALLTRIM(MLINE(MyProcs.MyCode, lnThisLine))

&lcCmd.
ENDFOR
*-- Code Fragment Ends

There are limitations to what you could run in this way and it's not something I have tried. Although I have used similar methods to read code entered into an edit box or from a text file.

Regards,

Ben