If the purpose of the excercise is merely to DELETE records, you could try the following approach ...

If Seek('SomeValue')
Delete Rest While KeyValueColumn == SomeValue
Endif

No need for the SCAN/ENDSCAN to delete. The table obviously must have its index TAG set to the SEEK value. The above syntax will delete the records that match in one line and will not lock the table.

HTH

>I am posting this again cause I dont know where this message went and I am not ble to search it using the search facility provided by UT.
>
>What would you suggest is the right and fast method of the two:
>
>

>SELECT <mydbf>
>SCAN FOR SEEK(<expr>)
>   SELECT <otherdbf>
>   ...
>   ...
>   ...
>
>   SELECT <mydbf>
>   DELETE
>ENDSCAN
>
>                        OR
>
>SELECT <mydbf>
>SCAN WHILE SEEK(<expr>)
>   SELECT <otherdbf>
>   ...
>   ...
>   ...
>
>   SELECT <mydbf>
>   DELETE
>ENDSCAN
>

>
>Thanks in advance for any suggesstions