Hi barbara..
im trying still to do this..to change the database would be having 18000 records and every time y need to ad a new record i need to make drastic changes..
i trying
with this function something else

i created a function in my main program called rate()
like this

function rate()
lparameter dialednr,code,result,result,n
select rates && my rates table
set order to tag code &&code is field that contains the country areacodes
seek left(view1.dialednr,6) &&dialednr is the fieldname of the calls in view
for n=1 to fcount()
if field(n)=upper(code)
return eval(field(n))*result &&&&result is the result of the duration
endif
endfor
rate=n
return rate
endfunc

what is wring with this functions...does it do what i need it to do..
ps. result is the duration of the call allready calculated in function result()