>>Chris and Antonio,
>>
>>Testing for myField = 1/0 returns true on a field with a numeric overflow condition. So this should be a good general solution, or you could SCAN/ENDSCAN and check the condition on each record if necessary:
>>

>>REPLACE myField with 0 for myField = 1/0

>>
>>>
>>>AFIELDS gives some info, and there are a few more that I cant think of off the top of my head.
>>>But by passing the Size and Dec you can use this for more then just a field of an opened database. Making it a general approach.
>>>If I was doing something with checking for overflows, I would no doubt do an AFIELDS()
>>>then Loop through that, take the size and precision, pass it into the above code, and then replace for myField > maxVal, though it isnt the best way to do the replacement either, replace for locks the entire table if im not mistaken.
>>>
>
>I can not get that condition to be true.
>I overflowed a field,
>
>

>?FSize("Num")   => 5
>REPLACE Num WITH 99999999999
>? Num            => *******
>? Num = 1/0      => .F.
>

Try:

? "*" $ TRANSFORM (Num)

Jay