Ed,

Just to let you know what I am trying to do:

I have a Customer table and a child Purchased table. I want an SQL to determine those Customers who bought
SOAP and TOWELS and TOOTHBRUSH.

The UDF (obviously not the one show) determines if the pair Cust_id,Item_id exists for each Item in the search list
(by using SEEK) and returns .T. or .F. The values of Item_id are stored in an array.

Is this a totally off the wall approach and dangerous to boot?