Hi Terry,

Are you sure that code that fails is exactly the same? Maybe it looks more like following?

...
  into Cursor csrNewRESUs NOFILTER
* Comment ;
lnRecCount  = _TALLY
If lnRecCount > 0
...

>Curious problem I've never come across before. Consider the code below (an example as a very similar error occured in a similar piece):
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>Select *, RTE_NO + GEN + DIRECTN + STR( ESU_ID, 11) ;
>  from mclMPSer!ROUTE_ESU ;
>  where RTE_NO + GEN + DIRECTN + STR( ESU_ID, 11) not in ;
>    (  Select Rte_No + Gen + Directn + STR( ESU_ID, 11) ;
>  	from RouteESUMap) ;
>  into Cursor csrNewRESUs NOFILTER
>
>lnRecCount  = _TALLY
>If lnRecCount > 0					&& then new ROUTE_ESUs to copy over
>    Wait WINDOW "Updating GIS RouteESUMap table with new Route-ESUs from mPlan ..." NOWAIT NOCLEAR
>    Select csrNewRESUs
>    ...
>

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>When it gets to the line If lnRecCount > 0 it crashes with the old:
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>"operator/operand type mismatch" error.
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>So I halt it and inspect in debug. I find, of course, _TALLY is 0 or an integer (depending on which example), but lnRecCount is .F. How can this be when the previous line has equated lnRecCount with _Tally!!! ?
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>Now the first time it happened, I thought it a strange anomoly, and I equated the 2 values in the command window. Then I let the form run on, and the code below it worked OK, but it did exactly the same at the above code.
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>'ppreciate it
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