>Hi Gregory,
>
>>Anyone can reproduce / explain the code below ?
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>I agree with Sergey that this is a bug in VFP. It looks like it's related to "aa" being the first string in the #DEFINE statement. As soon as you insert another character in front like "m.aa=aa", "?aa=aa", "(aa=aa)", etc., the replacement works correctly.
>
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>Christof

hi Christof,

I was thinking along these lines too when I got up this morning. It's as if they were starting to scan from the second char.

thanks,