>>Hi,
>>
>>Why is there an equal sign (=) before some commands that I see? For example: i saw an example of the SetFileAttributes API Function. It was like this:
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>>=SetFileAttributes.........
>>
>>I wrote it using
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>>SetFileAttributes.........
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>>and worked just fine.
>>
>>What is the diference between them?
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Alonso
>
>
>In VFP 5 and before, all function calls had to be assigned to something, i.e
>lcVar = FunctionName()
>
>If you didn't want the return value, then you could leave out the variable e.g.
>= FunctionName()
>
>In VFP 6, the need to assign the return from a function was removed, so now you can just say:
>FunctionName()

That works in most cases, but with few exceptions. One exception is a seek function. You can not just call it seek(myValue).