>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I try to do the following:
>>>When using buffering 5 of a table, I want to figure out whether there are any changed records in the table, without scanning through the entire table and checking record by record.
>>>
>>>The cursor may not be at the record that has been changed, and it is possible that there are multiple records changed.
>>>
>>>Is there not a function that returns an array with all records that are changed?
>>>
>>>Thanks for your help in advance.
>>
>>Christian,
>>
>>Look up this funciton in the help file:
>>GETFLDSTATE( )
>>
>>HTH
>
>Unfortunately, this only works for the current record, and in a large table it would take a long time to do this for each record.
>
>I assume that the TABLEUPDATE method does not scan through all records to find the records which should be updated. Therefore I conclude that the information must be somewhere about each record that has been changed.

You can use this function in combination with:

GETNEXTMODIFIED(nRecordNumber [, cTableAlias | nWorkArea] [, lNoFire])
which returns the record number for the next modified record in a buffered table or cursor.