>>use the seek() function. it does what you are looking for.
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>Mark,
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>I tried! It uses 3 parms, right? No matter what I tried, VFP gave me an error stating I was missing a ")". I was not to my knowledge. It's only:
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>SEEK(eExpression [, nWorkArea | cTableAlias
> [, nIndexNumber | cIDXIndexFileName | cTagName]])
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>So I used:
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>SEEK(myvalue, mytable, mytable)
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>My table in this situation, mytable, has the same name for both the DBF and CDX file.
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>Any ideas?
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>Mark

Mark,

SEEK (myvaue, "mytable", mytable) should work. Try the quotes around the alias and/or the index key.

BW