Yes, I know that ...

I was changing code from SBT (where I found this) to something generic.

SBT still uses "->" instead of "." for standardization purposes.

They moves a might slow<g>...


>You also do not have to use -> anymore between the table and field
names. You can replace it with a .
>
>>Hey UT folks -
>>Sometimes I feel like a total idiot savant with VFP. Some features I know as well as the people who designed them, then I hit something like this .. which is probably something everyone but me knew about.
>>
>>Here's the feature I didn't know about, but came across by accident:
>>
>>Did you know that when you issue a SCAN/ENDSCAN VFP automatically flips a SELECT back to the correct file when hitting the ENDSCAN without you having to explicitly doing so?
>>
>>Here's an example program:
>>
>>SELECT j1
>>
>>SCAN
>> SELECT j2
>> LOCATE FOR ord = j1->rec
>> IF NOT FOUND()
>> APPEND BLANK
>> REPLACE ord with j1->rec
>> ENDIF
>>ENDSCAN
>>
>>Now I would have expected this to bomb, because I didn't issue a 'SELECT j1' after the REPLACE and there's no 'ord' field on the 'j2' file. But when the program hits the ENDSCAN, it reverts to 'j1' automatically!
>>
>>Please someone tell me this is new and not been around since VFP 3 or FoxPro 1.0. Yeesh!