>In the currently selected work area, is it possible to reference fields in a record that is not the currently selected record?
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>If so, how?
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>If not, what is/are the conventional means for constructing a logical expression that references the same field in two different records of a table. (I can think of some ways, I'd like to know what others do and whether there is a generally accepted method)
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>for example, I want to test
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IF alias.fname@index(n) = alias.fname@index(m) ....

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>Where '@index(x)' is my psuedo-subscript that corresponds to physical (RECORD) or logical (INDEX) order depending upon my requirements.

You may open the same table twice (USE mytable AGAIN ALIAS mytable1) move pointers to different records and compare.