Glenn, stick a closing paren inside the rat's ' ', and you'll see it. Intellisense does mess up sometimes when parens appear inside quotes.

Alan

>Mmmmm. Yes I do see something different, I did not get correct highlighting when the "THIS" was not present. I have not re-tested this after a re-start, but I will try it now. Sometimes Itellesense gets a little "wiggy" after some testing, perhaps this is one of those cases.
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>I Just tested it again after a re-start and again it is working correctly. It still is a bug but not one as easy to crush! I would not know how to reproduce the situation again but I will pay more attention to this in the future.
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>Glenn
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>>Glenn,
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>>When I type this code fragment into a modi comm window:
>>
>>

>>with this
>>   thisform.cRepName = juststem( substr( .printcmd, rat( ' ', .printcmd ) + 1 ) )
>>endwith
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>>as I type each ) it does correctly highlight back to the correct opening (.
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>>what are you doing to see something different?
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>>I'm using VFP8Sp1.
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>>>The error occurs with the IDE highlighting for parenthesis.