>Hello:
>
>This is probably a very simple issue, but... Are you issuing EXACT ON, because if not SEEK will ALWAYS return .T. and that´s why the ELSE part of your code is not executing.
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>Hope this helps!
>
>Mao.

Hi, I almost never SET EXACT ON. And SEEK doesn't behave in the way you describe. With SET EXACT OFF, the default, matching is from the left so

"x"= "xyz" && .F.
"xyz"= "x" && .T.
"anything at all" = ""  && .T.

and the same logic applies to SEEK
Regards