>>You can also use

SELECT IRegion FROM mytable WHERE IRegion=lnRegion TO SCREEN NOCONSOLE

>
>Yes, that would work. But, that need to resolve at the upper level. We just can't force that approach whenever we have to use a count command. There is a lot of places in the code where such command is invoked.

You don't have to. Just make sure that lnRegion is defined, visible and peoperly populated :)