BTW, Neil's comment

DO WHILE OT EOF()

Should be DO WHILE NOT EOF()

I would change the DO WHILE with SCAN/ENDSCAN - less lines to code and easier to manage, IMHO.

What exactly is your UPDATE STUFF ?

>Hi Naomi.. thnaks for your reply.
>Just got used to Do While.. nothing more
>What seems to be happening is that in my while loop, its updating the First record
> instead of the last record , sometimes only.
>
>Regards,
>Gerard
>
>
>>>Hi.
>>>Has anybody had any problems with GOTO recnum. I have an app which seems to fail on this
>>> intermittently and cant see any reason for it.
>>>My code is as follows:
>>

>>>Select Recno() as MyRecnum,Field1,Field2 from MyTable Into Cursor Cur Readwrite
>>>Do stuff with Cur
>>>Sele Cur 
>>>Goto top
>>>DO WHILE OT EOF()
>>>    If Condition met
>>>        Sele MyTable
>>>       Goto Cur.MyRecnum
>>>       Update Stuff
>>>   Endif
>>>
>>>  Sele Cur
>>>  Skip
>>>Enddo
>>>

>>>What seems to be happening, again infrequently , but I cannot see a pattern,
>>> is that the last record in MyTable is updated instead of the MyRecnum record
>>>
>>>Any ideas on this would be appreciated
>>>Regards.
>>>Gerard
>>
>>Why you're not using SCAN/ENDSCAN and is your UPDATE stuff is really a replace command with
>>
>>replace ... IN myTable ?
>>
>>Finally, I always check with this
>>

>>if between(lnRecno, 1, reccount('myTable'))
>>  goto lnRecno in myTable
>>endif
>>

>>just in case