There seem to be too many assumptions and not enough precautions. I would personally go through and make sure the program will deal correctly with non-empty records and prevent it from looping endlessly. As for the problem with the sorting, I couldn't explain that.

>Hei!
>
>I was wondering if anyone could explina this situation.
>I collegue who has since left the company made a server tool which loops through a table
>and does some processing..
>
>He uses a field called admstatus a character field. With a tag on it.
>
>SO the code looks like
>
>SELECT pdmlog
>SET ORDER TO TAG AdmStatus
>GO TOP
>
>IF EOF()
> EXIT
>ENDIF
>
>
>IF NOT EMPTY(pdmlog.admstatus)
> EXIT
>ENDIF
>
>
>-do some stuff
>
>Sometimes but not often the program loops endlessly on the same record
>which is not empty in the admstatus and is not at the end of the file..
>
>What happens in this loop is he is expecting all the empty records to be first in the table.
>Why would doing the SET ORDER TO TAG not have the empty records first?
>
>I added a
>SEEK ""
>To move to the first empty record but I can't seem to figure out why this situation would occur.
>
>Thanks a Mil..