Hi Ted, thanks for the reply.

You are correct that Inlist(nTa,) is the fall over part. What surprised me

was that the line would fail on the first part

Case nTa > 0 , it was 0 (zero). The second part also AND

!empty(this.termlist) which it is should have failed the case. Both of those

should return .F. to the case. I can only assume that the VFP runtimes

compiles as it goes and falls over with the Inlist before it can even think

about the previous parts.

I cheated anyway as I had to get it going by making tList "none" and changed

the empty to <> "none", Anyway it worked so I am happy but I just wondered

why it didn't work.

Al

-----Original Message-----

What does VFP do when it "falls over?" Mine usually stays upright,

even whilst complaining.

I'd suspect when you macro-expand tlist and it is an empty string,

you're left with INLIST(nTa, ) which is a syntax error.

instead, just before the CASE statement, make

tlist = "Nonsense" + IIF(NOT(EMPTY(tlist)), ", " + tlist, SPACE(0))

That way, there is at least one non-empty element in tlist and it

doesn't end with a comma when you macro expand it.

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