If you read in Help, it says:

"The == operator can be used when an exact comparison of character data is needed. If two character expressions are compared with the == operator, the expressions on both sides of the == operator must contain exactly the same characters, including blanks, to be considered equal. The SET EXACT setting is ignored when character strings are compared using ==."


>Craig, Tamar and Cindy,
>
>? Set('Collate')=Machine
>? Set('exact')=Off
>? Set('ansi')=Off
>? Set('deleted')=On
>
>Should exact be on since I'm using ==?
>
>Thanks for the help,
>Doug