>>>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 :)

We will consider moving to VFP 7.