Ouch. Are you really using FPW2.6? If you are, its harder. In vfp, there are a couple of schemes, everything from creating a object from the record and comparing that to an object created from another record and so forth.

In FPW I would probably do it thru SQL. If I knew the key field I would do:

select * from mytable where mykey in (select mykey from mytable group by mykey having cnt(*) > 1)

Failing that, you may well have to go field by field. I would do that with a loop, and use the FIELD() function and macros, instead of naming each field.

>I have to work with a file that has 164 fields. I know: it needs normalization, but this is the government - we don't have time for efficiency!
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>Is there an easy way to compare two records within the same file? I'd like to just say something like "IF Rec#1 = Rec#2 Do Something" - is this possible?
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>Or will I have to compare them one field at a time?
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>Thanks!
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