Jim, Thanks a lot for your help. I think I'm regaining my sanity now. That SET EXACT ON/OFF stuff can be confusing. I went with the EMPTY() function as suggested. Thanks Again, Chuck

>Chcuk,
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>Forget my lastr eply. The problem is as Keith pointed out.
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>mProduct = "" is Always True
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>That is how strings are compared in xBase. The strings are comapred one character at a time until the striong on the right is exhausted. Your string on the right has a length of 0 so it is equal to anything on the left.
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>Fix this by using the EMPTY() function instead.
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>IF EMPTY(mProduct)
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