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Seek doesn't work and locate is ok
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01130302
Message ID:
01130350
Views:
19
>first I select the table
>Then I do a seek
>it does'nt work
>
>I traced what's happening in the debugger. After the seek I looked to see where was the pointer in the table. Pointer was at the right place. So in debugger it works ok as long as I check for the the content of the table. Out of the debugger the pointer is not positioned at the right place after the seek.
>
>I replaced the seek by a locate and everything works fine.
>
>Why would I have this behavior with the seek?

Is your table buffered and are you seeking before you commit the changes? Index wouldn't be updated until you commit the changes. Locate looks at the values of a field.
Dawa Tsering


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