Exctract 4 what? the total record count of the cursor? _TALLY will give that to you.


>thanks that works insofar as it gives me an inventory of the data and how many of each record has the same data
>so one result was as follows
>1 with 1010
>1 with 1014
>2 with 1019
>2 with 1031
>how would i simply extract 4 out of this and hold it as a variable?