>>Let me try to explain. I have a table called "Scars," which is a child of a table called "Names." The "Scars" table has two fields: a text field, "Location" and a memo field, "Description." A person listed in the Names table may have more than one scar, e.g., Right Forearm -- 2" scar; Left Cheek -- 3" crescent shaped scar, etc. For reasons that are not important for this discussion, I eventually want to eliminate the Parent/Child relationship and delete the "Scars" table altogether. Instead, I want to create a memo field in the "Names" table and transfer the information currently listed in the "Scars" table to the new memo field in the corresponding records in the "Names" table. I'm just trying to get the information in the Scars.Location & Scars.Description fields to be copied into the Names.memo field. I've been partially successful using the replace, additive, etc. commands, but it one seems to copy the first matching pair (in the example above,"Right Forearm -- 2" scar" would be
>>copied to the new memo field but "Left Cheek -- 3" crescent shaped scar" would not be. I'm close, but unlike Clinton, no cigar!
>>
>>TIA
>>--lincoln
>
>Lincoln,
>Still unclear how scars related to names. Anyway I'll assume it has 3rd field as linkfld.

use names in 0
>use scars in 0 order tag linkfld
>select names
>scan
>  m.linkfld = linkfld
>  if seek(names.linkfld, "scars","linkfld")
>     select scars
>     m.memo = ""
>     scan while linkfld == names.linkfld
>       m.memo = m.memo + ;
>                scars.location + chr(13) + ;
>                scars.description + chr(13)
>     endscan
>     select names
>     replace newmemo with m.memo
>  endif
>endscan

Cetin

Thank You. It worked perfectly. --lincoln