Hi Chuck,
>>
>>Today I found that function seek() does not exact search. Does it respect exact settings? I didn't notice this before...
>>
>>Test example: (haven't checked exact settings)
>>

>>create cursor hhh (code C(5))
>>select hhh
>>for i=10000 to 99999
>>  insert into hhh value (alltrim(str(i)))
>>endfor
>>index on code tag code
>>? seek('111','hhh','code') && return .t.
>>

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>The seek function will respect the SET EXACT and SET NEAR commands.

Right, I found it by experiment. I just was not aware about it before...