> they are literals, single quotes inside your single quote string.
> It's the same whenever you try to embed a single quote in a pascal

string

> which is also enclosed in a singel quotes.
> You must have always beeen doing this...and never realised I suppose.
> Alan
>

You are correct Alan, Maybe I used them without realising but I am
migrating from the desktop to server world. Didn't use them in my
normal apps which are basically scientific in nature and hadn't worried
too much about strings per se as everything was taken care of in
the 'standard' edit box and memo components.

Thanks for all your help.

Rgds,
Tony