Brian,

The others have answered how to get your variable (MyVariable = Table.VariableField), but no one mentioned (for future reference) that SELECT INTO CURSOR or INTO ARRAY eliminates the browse window.

Another thing, since you mentioned nNext_ID, be sure to do some thinking about primary keys. Craig Berntson has a nice discussion on his web page about this. http://members.home.net/foxpro/kb/kb0006.html. I've used his method and had great results. I've seen postings of problems using other methods.

>(I'm new to VFP). I'm trying to figure out how to select a field (ie. Cust_ID) into a variable (ie. nNext_ID), without opening a browse window. Currently, doing a command like 'select cust_id as next_id from ids' does indeed get me the information I need, but opens a browse window; therefor requiring manual input from the console to continue.
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>Any suggestions?
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>-Brian D. McGrew
>Machine Vision Products
>brian@visionpro.com