>>>>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

TRY
  _VFP.DataToClip(,,3)
CATCH
  MESSAGEBOX("No data")
ENDTRY