>>Tables are not buffered, and there is no inherited behavior involved.
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>>>OK, try doing a "SELECT yourtable", before you do the REPLACES or add a "IN yourtable" on the end of the REPLACE lines.
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>Are you trying to do the REPLACES into other than the current work area? If that's the case, either of the two above suggestions should work, with the second the preferred method.
>Fred<<
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>Thanks, Fred
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> I tried both tactics before posting the problem. It's the same work area. As I said - at this point the only thing that seems to get VFP to perform this piece of code is to stop it with a browse after each of the three sets of replaces. All code before and after this section runs just fine.
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>Eleanor

Have you stepped through it with the Debugger to see if this code is really executing? Sounds like it's not to me.