Thanks Thomas, It's good to hear (though saddening that it has happened) that somebody also has a similar problem with SCAN WHILE

>From my FoxPro 2.X days, I recall that we would never use Scan While as it was not stable, or predictable. Scan For would be my choice. Scan While "would do something but you could not be sure of the results".
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>Tom
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>>Hi all
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>>I have a function skel like below:
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>>FUNCTION myFunc
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>>	PARAMETERS myID
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>>	SELECT myDBF
>>	SET ORDER TO TAG myField
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>>	= SEEK(myID)
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>>	SCAN WHILE myDBF.myField = myID
>>		SELECT myOtherDBF
>>		*** myOtherDBF manipulation logic goes here
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>>		SELECT myDBF
>>		DELETE
>>	ENDSCAN
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>>This fails, what am I doing wrong. Just change the WHILE to FOR, though slower will never fail.