This may help:

CREATE CURSOR temp1 (var1 c(5))
FOR ia=1 TO 5
	INSERT INTO temp1 VALUES (PADL(ia,5,"0"))
ENDFOR

GO top
var1=7
afield(aa)
?var1, m.var1, ASCAN(aa,"VAR1")

>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