>>>In my quest of optimizing my code, how about this one:
>>>
>>>

>>>lcField=FIELD(lnCompteur)
>>>IF &lcField<>OLDVAL(FIELD(lnCompteur))
>>>

>>
>>So. . .
>>IF FIELD(lnCompteur) <> OLDVAL(FIELD(lnCompteur))
>>. . . doesn't work?
>It wouldn't work because FIELD(lnCompteur) returns the name of the field not it's value. The following will work

IF EVAL(FIELD(lnCompteur)) <> OLDVAL(FIELD(lnCompteur))

Of course. . . stupid me.

But I don't think the EVAL is needed. Simply (FIELD(lnCompteur)) works on my system (tried it THIS time < s >)