>I have declared a variable local in a form class method, yet it seems not to be local. Here is the code:
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>THISFORM.grdfind.RECORDSOURCE = THIS.ccursorname
>LOCAL nColumnCount, nColNumber
>nColumnCount = THIS.grdfind.COLUMNCOUNT
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>FOR nColNumber = 1 TO nColumnCount
>	THIS.grdfind.COLUMNS(nColNumber).CONTROLSOURCE = ;
>		THIS.ccursorname + "." + THIS.afieldnames(nColNumber)
>ENDFOR
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>If I run through this method twice it blows up because nColNumber = 5 (nColumnCount = 4). If I suspend the code below the ENDFOR, nColNumber = 5 at the end of the first pass. Is this normal? I thought that nColNumber would never be greater than 4?

Yes, that's the way FOR loop works. The variable of the loop (nColNumber) gets incremented before it's compared to the TO value (nColumnCount).

On the second call to the method, nColNumber starts out at 5. I use this same variable in the calling program (declared local) and another method in the same form class (also local).

It looks like you have variable nColNumber in the calling program. Anyway, at the begining of the loop nColNumber variable would start from 1 again.