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Is something wrong with this SEEK?
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27/12/2006 15:23:06
 
 
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27/12/2006 15:13:34
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01180555
Message ID:
01180569
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12
>>>>Hello all.
>>>>One of my co-worker saw one of my SEEK() statement and made a "big" deal that I shouldn't do it this way, but he wouldn't say why except to say that "it's not our standard"...
>>>>
>>>>What is wrong With
>>>>
>>>>IF SEEK(MyValue, "MyTable", "MyIndexTag")
>>>>   ...
>>>>ENDIF
>>>>
>>>>?
>>>>
>>>>Is there a reason why I should use this?
>>>
>>>You didn't mention what version of VFP you are on but in VFP 6 there was a bug in the SEEK function but the INDEXSEEK worked fine and so did the SEEK command. Once we've moved to VFP 8 I use this SEEK function all the time.
>>
>>Oh. What was that? I have never seen.
>>Cetin
>
>message#889432

Well, thread itself is quite inconclusive. Personally, I use SEEK() all time, including VFP6, and never noticed any bugs.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant
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