>I would expect the command
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>REPLACE myTable.value1 with nTestVal
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>to execute without a problem, assuming
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>myTable is open and active,
>and the source and destintation are of comparable types.
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>Yet I see cases from time to time where it doesn't work when the source is numeric and the destination is currency. No error message - just no data move. I've solved the issue with ugly work-arounds moving the data to differnety types, which surely is not necessary.
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>Are there other gottchas (pitfalls) that may be causing the replace to not function.
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>Thanks,
>
>Dennis

Replace value1 with nTestVal in mytable

is a bit better syntax