>Sorry, I did not mean for you to discard the LOCATE command.

>select gisum (parent)
>replace lc_action with "D"
>dele
>currec= recno()
>csessionkey = gisum.sessionkey
>Select gidetail
>LOCATE for gidetail.sessionkey = csessionkey
>if !eof()
>   lnDelrec= recno()
>   replace gidetail.lc_action with "D" while gidetail.sessionkey = csessionkey
>   goto lnDelrec
>   delete while gidetail.sessionkey = csessionkey
>endif
>go currec

Hi Mark:

Still not working for me...it's skipping over the records that
match the sessionkey and not deleting them