>Dear All,
>
>How do I trap the value displayed within the status bar when the SET STATUS BAR is on?

No direct way that I know of, but the status bar usually displays one or more of the following:
recno()
reccount()
_tally (with an appropriate coment, like "... records indexed" etc. While you can easily look these up in help, I'd just add from my experience that _tally (number of records processed in the last multi-record command) is the most used system variable. If you're running an SQL statement with "into array", it's so much easier to check if _Tally=0 then to check if the array got created and how many rows does it have.