Hi Ben,

>If you agree that VFP should optimize STR(), I think you will also agree that VFP should optimize other string functions (LEFT(), REPLICATE(), LEFT(), RIGHT(),...) when the parameter determining the length of the resulting string is a numeric literal. Therefore, the bug in VFP9 is not limited to STR().
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To my knowledge, LEFT(), RIGHT() and REPLICATE() are handled properly in VFP9 RTM. Do you have a repro that demonstrates otherwise?

Thanks,
Aleksey.