>>Hi Samuel,
>>
>>Would you please respond with a relevant piece of code (make sure to enable autoquote in message view setup)?
>>
>>Looking at the code only I do not see a problem. May be because I need to take a quick lunch break <g>
>
>Here is the code.
>
>

>OPEN DATABASE testdbase
>
>SELECT mynotes
>lcNotes = ""
>SET ORDER TO TAG tComPrt
>SEEK crsbom.partnum
>SCAN WHILE mynotes.partnum = crsbom.partnum
> IF EMPTY(mynotes.notes)
>  LOOP
> ENDIF
> lcNotes = m.lcNotes + ALLTRIM(mynotes.notes)+ space(1)
>ENDSCAN
>IF NOT EMPTY(m.lcNotes)
> REPLACE Notes WITH crsbom.notes + m.lcNotes IN crsbom
>ENDIF
>

Most likely, you confuse the program with 'lcNotes' and 'm.lcNotes'. Why can't you use one of them only?