>When I run a select from VFP on the status bar for just a second or two it says:
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>Selected XXXXXX Records in xx.x seconds
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>How can I capture and use that value?
The number of selected records is stored to the variable
_tally.
You can check the elapsed time with seconds() or with datetime().
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