Thanks Hugo for pointing me to the Aused function which is very handy.

>>>Hi all;
>>>
>>>I want to know if a given cursor in a given datasession exists. What is the optimal/fastest way to do this in code?
>>>
>>>TIA
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>>You can use AUSED(ArrayName [, nDataSessionNumber [, cTableName]]) and then search in the array (if you did not pass cTableName)
>>
>>[update]
>>Well, I guess you will always pass cTableName, silly me
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>Something like:
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>? inUSe('c:\vfp\mytable.dbf', 2)
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>function inUse
>lparameters tcTableName, tnDS
>local laInfo(1)
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>return aused(laInfo, tnDS, tcTableName) > 0
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