>>>Can you provide the actual code for Myfunction?
>>
>>It is in my original message. I lowered it down to only have those lines.
>IF ldDate and ldDate2 are declared as local than they are invisible in Myfunction and

SET FILTER TO CREATION>=ldDate AND CREATION <=ldDate2

>became invalid. Foxpro evaluates filter only after pointer has been moved in table. That would explain why yoy get NOT EOF and EOF in Myfunction.

Bingo, this is what I was always doing by PRIVATing my variables instead of LOCALizing them when I was calling a function to display. I just removed NOFILTER, change to PRIVATE and it is working as is.