>>I set a filter in a report using a macro substitution. When building the filter it can build up to 4 long AND statments depending on the user input. When users selected all 4, it would give the fatal error. It turned out that changing the way I set the filter fixed this issue. It was:
>>SET FILTER TO IIF(cPrtAlign=.T.,patient.f_precno>0,&lcFilter AND patient.f_precno>0)
>>
>>Changed to:
>>IF cPrtAlign=.T.
>> SET FILTER TO patient.f_precno>0
>>ELSE
>> SET FILTER TO &lcFilter AND patient.f_precno>0
>>ENDIF
>>
>>I no longer get the C0000005 fatal error message. Any ideas why this would be. Do I need to avoid using IIF()? I'm hoping to find out why, although I am somewhat relieved just to have found a workaround. TIA, and YES this did work in my versions prior to VFP6.
>>Marcus.
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>Your former filter was prone to problems because all variables (if any exists) in literal filter expression will be evaluated when Foxpro will actually scan records and apply the filter to each one. So, if 'cPrtAlign' goes out of scope somewhere it may crash the system.

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for that one. In this case I do a Scan right after the filter and then reset the filter (SET FILTER TO) right after the scan. The fatal error message is reported to occur on the SCAN statement. I'll avoid using variables in filters as much as possible now, but do you think it was the cuplrit in this case?