Hi George,

VFP9 has the new ICASE function for these cases:

cColor=ICASE(VARTYPE(nVAL)='U','White',nVal=0,'Black',nVal<1,'Red','Green')

Really cool, and somewhat readable also. At least we don't have to count the all the ( and ) anymore.

>>George,
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>>>such as this is in a report text field
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>>And then I'd be inclined to the classical IF/ELSEs into a UDF instead of using a too gnarly nested IIF().
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>df,
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>Absolutely! I'm speaking in terms of a simple IIF() statement.IOW,

IIF(A, B, C)

Anything beyond that, even if it is faster, is asking for trouble.
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>Along the same lines, I'm sure that we can expect to see similar abuse with the ICASE() function.
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>Whoops, sorry. Such remarks are sure to have the "Correctness Police" after us if you agree.:-)