Dump unnecessary leading equals signs ("=")

You will often see a leading equals sign ("=") in older VFP code (especially in code ported over from FoxPro 2.x).  A leading equals sign is necessary only in a couple of instances in VFP:

  - when calling the SEEK() function  and not storing the return value, e.g.,

      USE (HOME(2) + 'Data\Customer') IN 0
      =SEEK('Great Lakes Food Market', 'Customer', 'Company')

  - when denoting an expression in a property in the Properties Sheet/Window; for example, when setting the .Caption property of _Screen:

      ='My Application (Version # ' + m.gcVersionNo + ')'

Side note, when setting the .Picture property for an Image control, include the equals sign as follows:

      ='MySplash.JPG'

If you specify MySplash.JPG without the equals sign and character delimiters, VFP will attempt to insert the path in front of the picture's file name; the problem is that that path may not (in fact, most likely will not) be on your customer's PC (when your application is production).