>>Hi,
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>>I experience the following with a CA cursor. The setting DELETE is On ( SET DELETE ON )
>>1. I bookmark the recno() of the cursor (e.g. nRecno = recno(cCursorName))
>>2. I delete this record using the VFP DELETE command
>>3. I go to this record using GOTO command. GOTO nRecno (the debugger shows that the pointer is on the correct record).
>>Is this "normal"? That is, shouldn't the GOTO nRecno fail because the record has been deleted?
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>It was always normal, for the last 30 years at least (in my experience). The goto command doesn't check anything, it just goes there if it can. The only thing it respects is eof().
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>Movement commands (like scan, skip, locate, calculate etc) respect the filter, current tag (including partial indexes), set("deleted") and whatnot. GOTO has no respect at all, the bastard.
Thank you.
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