>>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.
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>To say nothing of the fact that

>"string" = ""

is always true
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That is not true. It depends on Set EXACT being OFF

ps: == was used