>>thanks. I think it means Locate will always find from the top.
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>Yes, and that's what LOCATE will do by default.
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>I understand that a GO TOP is "relatively" slow, so since LOCATE (as written) is going to go there anyways...

In fact GO TOP can be extremely slooooow if the first matching record is close to the bottom in a large file.


>cheers
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>>regards,
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>>Jerry