Although key(1) is both shorter and less typing, ataginfo() is shorter in time ;-)
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>It doesn't work anyway for some reason. I guess I need to go back to ataginfo.
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>This code
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>lcChild = laAllTables[lnI,1]
>     USE (lcChild) IN 0 SHARED ALIAS Child AGAIN 
>     lcExprC = KEY(TAGNO(laAllTables[lnI,3],'Child'), 'Child')

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>returns 0 for tagno and then error. Do you see a problem here?
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>>>>>No, but it is still shorter and less typing.
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>>>>True, but how do you know which index to pass to key() ?
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>>>tagno(tagName) - the old backward capability function still has its usage.
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>>Oh, IC