>>I had a typo in my program, I wrote Endif instead of Endfor. Also I suggest that you change == to =. This modified version works as you describe. If one or more of lxNameX match any of the nameX fields, you have a match.

>>lcFromTable='x2'
>>lcResultTable='crsMyCursor'
>>For x=1 to 4
>>   lcName=Evaluate('lcName'+Transform(x))
>>   If !Empty(lcName)
>>      Select * from (lcFromTable) where name1=lcName or name2=lcName or name3=lcName or name4=lcName into cursor (lcResultTable) READWRITE
>>      lcFromTable=lcResultTable
>>   EndIf
>>EndFor

>>NB! I tested it this time. :-)
>
>Nice! You can, of course, write it as one long select too, e.g.
>

>  Select * from (lcFromTable) where (m.lcName1=="" OR (name1=lcName1 or name2=lcName1 or name3=lcName1 or name4=lcName1) )
>AND ((m.lcName2=="" OR (name1=lcName2 or name2=lcName2 or name3=lcName2 or name4=lcName2) )
>AND ...
>
>

>into cursor (lcResultTable)
>
>BTW, you can exit out of the loop once you get no result, you need to add a check for this.

Yes you can, but selecting from an empty cursor is extremely fast, so I did not add more code than necessary.