Even better you can save a keystroke with:

cpay_update # 'D'

>In addition to the other comments which will help you solve this mystery, I am offering a suggestion: You can use the REPLACE...FOR command, or REPLACE...WHILE command and do this with a lot fewer lines. You can replace many fields with one REPLACE. Also, just a personal preference; I find
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>cpay_update != 'D'
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>or
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>!(cpay_update = 'D')
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>easier to read than
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>!cpay_update = 'D'
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>Take care,
>Joe
>
>>I have a cursor called cpayment with 3 records. The cpay_flag is .t. and cpay_schdate has a date in all 3 records. When I run the following code it only loops through one record, not all 3. If I comment out the replace cpay_schdate with {} and replace cpay_flag with .f. the SCAN will loop through all records. Now I know whats causing the problem but I don't understand why.
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>>

>>select cpayment
>>SCAN FOR ((cpay_flag = .t.) and (!empty(cpay_schdate)))
>>	replace cpay_schdate with {}
>>	replace cpay_flag with .f.
>>	if !cpay_update = 'D' then
>>		replace cpay_update with "C"
>>	endif
>>	replace cpay_amt with 0.00
>>ENDSCAN
>>