Mystery behavior

I have the following code in one of my programs (which is based on one of Glen Rathke's examples).
IF EDT_Reference ~= "" THEN
sTRFilter += "REFERENCE LIKE " +sTmpQuote +"%" +EDT_Reference +"%" + sTmpQuote +sAnd
END
When I run the program in the debugger with EDT_Reference = DEPOSIT and sTRFilter = "", it skips over the line beginning with sTRFilter += ...
but leaves sTRFilter equal to REFERENCE LIKE %%
The strange thing is that if I plug the code beginning with "REFERENCE LIKE"... as an expression into the debugger I get the result that I expected.
The program has been recompiled,repaired,etc but the behavior persists.
I also have the same code in several other of my programs which work just fine.
Anyone have a suggestion on what I might try to fix this?
Thanks,
Garry

You -MAY-have a double replacement...

Check in your project property if the option to replace %VariableName% by the content of VariableName automatically at runtime is activated

If yes, and you also have a variable/Field called DEPOSIT (and it happens to be empty at the time this line is run, then you have your code building a string and the compiler replacing DEPOSIT

Hi Argus,
Thanks for the attempt but I have no field called DEPOSIT and it doesn't matter what I put in EDT_Reference, I get the same result.
Actually another instance of setting sTRFilter has started exhibiting the same behavior and I have been using this WD22 program for years!
Isn't it strange that the value for sTrFilter shows properly in the debugger Expression Pane but is incorrect when I hover over it in the code?
Maybe I should just reboot my machine.

Hi Garry,

>> Isn't it strange that the value for sTrFilter shows properly in the debugger Expression Pane but is incorrect when I hover over it in the code?

I have seen this a lot lately.
Usually, after a restart, things fix - but what really bothers me with the WX27 IDE, is that sometimes (unexpectedly), I lose "code changes".
Old code reappears, automagically, especially after doing a lot of searches and replaces

Regards
Steven Sitas

I changed a '~=' to a '>= "" ' and everything works now!