Today I discovered that VFP does not care if you try to seek a string in a numeric field.

Has this always been the case? Try this code:

CREATE CURSOR csrJunk (f1 I, f2 B, f3 N(5,2))

INSERT INTO csrJunk VALUES (1, 1111.1111, 1.11)
INSERT INTO csrJunk VALUES (2, 2222.2222, 2.22)
INSERT INTO csrJunk VALUES (3, 3333.3333, 3.33)
INSERT INTO csrJunk VALUES (4, 4444.4444, 4.44)

INDEX on f1 TAG f1
INDEX on f2 TAG f2 ADDITIVE 
INDEX on f3 TAG f3 ADDITIVE  

WAIT WINDOW SEEK(3, "csrJunk", 1)		&& Returns .T.
WAIT WINDOW SEEK(3333.3333, "csrJunk", 2)	&& Returns .T.
WAIT WINDOW SEEK("3.30", "csrJunk", 3)		&& Returns .F. I expected a Data type mismatch error

WAIT WINDOW SEEK(.T., "csrJunk", 1)		&& Error - Data type mismatch
WAIT WINDOW SEEK({^2000/01/01}, "csrJunk", 1)	&& Error - Data type mismatch

Why doesn't the third wait window cause an error like I think it should! Bug? By design?

TIA
Mike