I started VFP then immediately issued the commands. No tables are open.


>>Nobody suggested it, but it works! Without the m. it still gives 0, but with the m,. it gives a 1.
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>It means that you ran into the field precedence over variables!!!!!! In your case you have lx and ly field names in the currently opened table.
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>>>Not sure if somebody already suggested this, because I didn't follow the whole thread.
>>>But is there any change if you use [m.]?
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>>>lx = "Zip Code"
>>>ly = "Zip"
>>>? at(m.ly,m.lx) 
>>>