>>Exactly where I'm heading - but this is a legacy table - I needed the three state recognition in the end...
>>
>>>>Hello UT,
>>>>
>>>>select * from ster where SubStr(sunum,1,1) = "E" .AND. eclrhse == .F.
>>>>
>>>>returns cursor containing "unknown" or "unmarked" records as well.
>>>>(logical not known yet)
>>>>How may I return only records containing marked-logical-False?
>>>
>>>It may be apparent that using your own data type represented by a character like -- "Y", "N", or "U" would give you the discrimination that you need.
>>>
>>> Jay
>
>Can you add a logical field to the table to indicate whether or not the data has been entered for this field?
>
> Jay
With ~~ 21K recs I would have-to populate the new field - I would still need a programatic solution to populate the new field