I guess you can use Pemstatus(), but if you are in that situation, you are sitting on an armed bomb! You should redesign your application, and you should do it yesterday! You should use a prefix for all variables, like lcName where l means local and c means character. For fields you use "normal" names.

>I've been looking for a VFP function or a UDF that will allow me to determine if an object's control source refers to either a column in a cursor/table or to a memory variable. If it refers to a column I need to do a REPLACE command to update the column. If it refers to a memory variable I need to replace the value in the variable. Something like this is what I'm looking for:
>
> IF OBJTYPE(Object.ControlSource) = 'C'
> REPLACE (Object.ControlSource) WITH ltNewDateTime
> ELSE
> STORE ltNewDateTime TO (Object.ControlSource)
> ENDIF
>
>Thanks!!!
>Jim