>>SEEK 1 IN MyTable ORDER PK
>>SEEK "1" IN MyTable ORDER PK
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>>Both work. What gives?
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>This misfeature is relabelled a "convenience"
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>...at least until the developers decide at some future date that it's sloppy and they make the second usage illegal.
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>Just curious, how did you discover this?

Just how you might imagine. I was retrieving a PK from a URL, and forgot to convert it to numeric using VAL(), and it worked. It caught me later when I tried to perform a STR() on the value to pass it on.

I'm just wondering how I got this ar without ever noticing this "feature".

FWIW, I only consider it a misfeature because VFP doesn't do implicit type conversions elsewhere (ala VB). I like implicit type conversions, it keeps your code from being litterd with ALLTRIM(STR()), TRANSFORM(), VAL(), and soforth, but this the fact that this case is so isolated makes it a 'misfeature', IMO.