Not having tried this yet ... would there be a problem if my string was LOCAL?

>Jim,
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>Build yourself your own little debug/watch/edit form. Put a textbox on it to input the memvar/object.property name. Put an editbox that ends up getting bound to name you enter.
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>I sorta do like Cetin though, copy it to the clipboard, MODI FILE and paste to look at it.. if I edit I put it back to the clipboard and then set the thing = _cliptext
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>>Ken -- I've tried that as well, but as many strings may be over 1000 bytes, that gets kind of tedious.
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>>Odd the VFP doesn't provide some native way to handle this. Oh, well.