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>In FPW, you can build a filtered index that contains a UDF. If the nature of the filter condition requires that a UDF be used, this is one alternative. Another might be using a query to retrieve the record set. Of course, under VFP, I would hestitate to use either.

It's sloppy but the UDF could return a character string to complete the SET FILTER TO; ie:

cFilter=MyFunc()
SET FILTER TO &cFilter

But my response would match yours --- yuck.