>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.
>

To say nothing of the fact that

"string" = ""

is always true


>>Why not?
>>
>>no # id_no
>>
>>Agnes
>>>Your code won't work!

>>>scan 
>>>  if LEN(ALLTRIM(id_no))==10 AND CHRTRAN(ALLTRIM(id_no),"1234567890","")==""
>>>    replace no WITH 111
>>>  else &&error
>>>    replace no WITH 1
>>>  endif
>>>endscan

>>>
>>>
>>>>thank you it works
>>>>
>>>>i need to use it as below
>>>>

>>>>scan FOR LEN(ALLTRIM(id_no))==10 AND CHRTRAN(ALLTRIM(id_no),"1234567890","")==""
>>>>    replace no WITH 111
>>>> else &&error
>>>>    replace no WITH 1
>>>>endscan
>>>>
>>>>

>>>>thanks
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>>if the data (exactly 10 numbers) as 1562907543
>>>>>
>>>>>IF LEN(ALLTRIM(data))==10 AND CHRTRAN(ALLTRIM(data),"1234567890","")==""