>Hi Raul,
>
>To expand on Carlo's answer: &control..name
>
>The reason you need 2 periods: VFP has to know where to stop macro exapansion. So, the first period stops the exapansion and the second separates the object from the member.

Hi John:

Actually the issue was not with objects but with variables.
var_value = 5
v1 = 'var_'
v2 = 'value'
output = &v1.&v2

Doing some speed tests the following is the best sollution (almost half the time to complete):
var_value = 5
v1 = 'var_'
v2 = 'value'
output = EVAL(v1 + v2)

Of course those are generic examples and is not the way I'm appliying it.
Since the speed of EVAL() is about twice the speed of using &, is there a way
of doing the following using EVAL()?

var_value = 5
var_name = 'var_value'
&var_name = 6 && var_value is now 6

I don't see a way of using EVAL() to accomplish that, but I might be missing something.

TIA