>>>>>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.
>
>It seems to me like a bug to me.
>Shouldn't foxpro give an error 'Variable ldDate not found' in this case?

Yes, exactly.