select count(*) from table where (same condition as the set key) will give a count without changing your record pointer.

>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>I made a change in my form to use SET KEY instead of original SET FILTER. Everything seems to be working OK, but I still have a question - how wll I know the number of records satisfying the KEY (e.g. the number of filtered records)?
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>>>The _TALLY variable doesn't work.
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>>>I actually only need to know if I filtered something or not, although I created a variable for the number of filtered records. So, I can change it to logical variable, if you know an easy way to find if I filtered something or not, although I prefer to have a number.
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>>>Thanks a lot in advance.
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>>This gives you the "visible" count:
>>count to lnCount
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>Yes, thanks - thought is there a way without a count? I guess I will go for it.