>>>I disagree. You only really know you need to code against it because you get an error. It's not like trying to access record 5 in an empty table. You'd know intuitively that would fail. I don't feel that _vfp.datatoclip with an empty table is necessarily the sort of thing you'd code against intuitively.
>>>
>>>I agree with Peter and Cetin that it's a bug in the documentation.
>>
>>But then I'd rather see the code fixed, not the documentation. The function could simply return empty string for zero records. Wouldn't that be nice?
>
>But then you couldn't use TRY/CATCH to process easily. You'd still have to check for "no records" situation for that code to work (unless no records was OK).

You could just test for empty(_cliptext)... well, pretty much the same number of lines as it is now - presently we have to

if recc()>0
   _vfp.datatoclip(,,3)
   && do something with _cliptext here
endif

and then it'd be

_vfp.datatoclip(,,3)
if not empty(_cliptext)
   && do something with _cliptext here
endif