VARREAD() and SYS(18) Return in Uppercase or Proper Case

ID: Q114596

2.50 2.50a 2.50b | 2.00 2.50 2.50a 2.50b | 2.50b

WINDOWS          | MS-DOS                | MACINTOSH

The information in this article applies to:

• Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, versions 2.5, 2.5a, 2.5b
• Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, versions 2.0, 2.5, 2.5a, 2.5b
• Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, version 2.5b

VARREAD() and SYS(18) return the current field's name to a procedure. In a GET field, the name is returned in uppercase.

However, these functions return the field's name in the proper case (initial caps) from a Browse window.

NOTE: Under Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0 and 3.0b, VARREAD() returns the field's name in uppercase characters from a Browser window.

For additional information about VARREAD() and SYS(18), please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q115814
   TITLE     : PRB: VARREAD() and SYS(18) Do Not Work for BROWSE in Debug

Keywords          : FxprgBrowse 
Version           : 2.50 2.50a 2.50b | 2.00 2.50 2.5
Platform          : MACINTOSH MS-DOS WINDOWS