Hi Jonathon,

Good explanation. I read that line in the help but spaced off that I was going to EOF if the seek failed in the code. Thanks for your help. I'll use IN from now on for sure. -rick


>One of the documented "features" of the REPLACE command is that if you are doing a REPLACE in another work area, and the table in the current work area is at EOF, the REPLACE won't occur. Since your 2nd REPLACE is in the else of the SEEK(), the current work area will be at EOF