>In the VFP command window type ASCAN() highlight it and press F1 - you will see that this function takes more than one parameter - the first one is the array that you want to search in, the second is the item to compare each entry in the array against, there are optional additional parameters, but I will let you discover these your yourself.
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>So, select company_name from mymaster where ascan(myarray) is not quite there.
>You need to use:
>SELECT * FROM master_table WHERE ASCAN( MyArray, company_name ) # 0
ok - thanks and I will look into it.... :)