>>>Anyone ever use the SEEK command? Alright, who has used it in the following format:
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>>>SEEK myvalue ORDER TAG mytag OF mytable IN mytable
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>>>????
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>>>My goal -- simple. Move the record pointer in a table other than the current workarea; it saves storing the current alias, selecting the target table, seeking, and then selecting the original table. Only problem is -- doesn't seem to want to work. I get errors including "Variable COMPANY not found" (COMPANY happens to be a field in mytable, but this command above doesn't have anything to do with that field as far as I can tell).
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>>>I have a primary index key using a CDX file set to 'mytag'.
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>>>What's strange is that I've actually gotten this command to work before, but then that one quit working.
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>>>Hope someone can clue me in!
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>>
>>>Mark
>>>mark@remarkable-systems.com
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>>Is "myvalue" a variable or a field reference? If it is a field, try adding the alias to it. (table.myvalue)
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>Fred,
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>"myvalue" has been both a variable and a literal string, but never a field reference. Does this help?
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>The strangest part about it all is that this exact command works on another table with similar indices.

No, I just thought you may have had a problem with a memvar being the same name as a field reference. This can sometimes lead to confusion about which value is actually being used (field contents vs. variable contents) for the seek. Sorry.