>>>use the seek() function. it does what you are looking for.
>>
>>
>>Mark,
>>
>>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)
>>
>>My table in this situation, mytable, has the same name for both the DBF and CDX file.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>
>>Mark
>
>The 3rd parameter is the Tag Name, not the CDX file name.


Mark,

got it! thanks so much! Must have slept in the day they taught how to read the language conventions! ;-)

Mark