You just proved what we already knew, that nothing is impossible in VFP. :-)

>C'm on,
>
>it might not be everybodys way, but this is foxpro
>

>#DEFINE SCAN IF
>#DEFINE FOR
>#DEFINE ENDSCAN ENDIF
>
>CREATE CURSOR murks (id_no c(10), no i)
>
>APPEND BLANK
>
>
>SCAN FOR LEN(ALLTRIM(id_no))==10 AND CHRTRAN(ALLTRIM(id_no),"1234567890","")==""
> REPLACE no WITH 111
>ELSE &&error
> REPLACE no WITH 1
>ENDSCAN
>LOCATE
>
>#UNDEFINE SCAN
>#UNDEFINE FOR
>#UNDEFINE ENDSCAN
>
>?no
>

>
>Agnes
>>Have you ever seen the syntax Scan-else-Endscan? It's new to me. The bottom line is that it will give an error, and even if VFP would not catch the error, the Else statement would never execute since the scan already excluded those records.
>>
>>>Why not?
>>>
>>>no # id_no