Hi Dragan,

I agree with you completely that without a strict format for the memo field a different approach is needed. My idea was to show how simple it was to modify structured data in memo fields. A starting point, before the real world intrudes.

For me one of the great things about FoxPro is that there is usually a selection of alternatives to achieve the same goal and you have shown an approach to handling less structured data.

Another way would be to sprinkle the memo field with comment lines to bound the parts you want to change and use these as markers and then ... hmm.. its starting to sound a bit like XML to me.

Then again you could bin the memo field method altogether and store the data in a text field of a table. I'm told that FoxPro is pretty good at handling tables <s>

Nice to hear from you.

Alan