well... the 'goto' is not a proper command on structable programing.. But, how this one is a matter of logic.. The better decision up to you.. You're getting the view of all task..

The use of variable 'm.state' could be dangerous.. If you insert a command 'SCATTER' in other situations in a futrure..

the prefix 'lc' is a nice standard for your variables names.. 'l' of local and 'c' of character type.. So lcState works better for you..

>>>

>>>for each customer where customer.country='USA'
>>>    break by customer.state no-lock:
>>>
>>>    if first-of(customer.state) then do:
>>>        /* do something with first record */
>>>    end.
>>>
>>>    /* do something with records */
>>>
>>>    if last-of(customer.state) then do:
>>>        /* do something with last record  */
>>>    end.
>>>
>>>end.
>>>

>>>
>>>Scan endscan sort of does this but I cannot break. Can VFP do something like this?
>>
>>Not sure what the break does but here's my guess using dinosaur type code
>>

>>m.state = ''
>>m.llFirstGroup = .T.
>>
>>SCAN FOR customer.country = 'USA'
>>    lnCurRecno = RECNO()
>>    IF m.state <> customer.state
>>        IF NOT llFirstGroup
>>            GOTO lnLastRecno
>>            /* do something with last record */
>>            GOTO lnCurRecno
>>        ELSE
>>           llFirstGroup = .F.
>>        ENDIF
>>
>>      /* do the code for the first record */
>>       m.state = customer.state
>>    ENDIF
>>
>>    /* do the code for each record -- will include first record */
>>    lnLastRecno = RECNO()
>>ENDSCAN
>>
>>GOTO lnLastRecno
>>/* do something with last record */

>>
>>If you use SET FILTER rather than SCAN FOR you could use SKIPs rather than saving all the record numbers.
>>
>>Not sure how much this helped but hope it was something
>
>I think this is the right way to do it. Thanks!