Hi Mike,

What if you include replacement of numerical field with bigger number? My problem is, what I didn't get a Numerical overflow error, as I should get. Did you get this error correctly, when you ran your test program?

Thanks in advance.

>Nadya,
>
>I always include the IN Y clause. I don't specify the alias (Y.) on each field. I only specify the alias on fields outside of the target like X in this case.
>
>replace TotRooms with 10000, BedRooms with 1000, ;
>PRSLDATE WITH GetPrSlInfo(X.PROPID, X.SOURCE, X.DATE,'Date') IN Y
>
>Now as to the function...
>
>If the following seek lands your record pointer on the last record in TranMstr, the skip will leave you on EOF() in TranMstr
>
> if m.tcSource = "S" and seek(str(m.tnPropId,9)+dtos(m.tdDate),"TranMstr","TrxnHist")
> select TranMstr
> set order to TrxnHist
> if !eof()
> skip
>
>
>I gave up on your code after that point.
>
>I did this little program and it ran correctly for 118,000 records before I stopped it. I even stopped it and reran it, so that mylog already existed and wasn't recreated. It appears you can CREATE CURSOR in a UDF called during a replace command.
>
>

>USE speed
>replace ALL spd_char WITH myudf(spd_id)
>RETURN
>
>FUNCTION myudf
>LPARAMETERS tiID
>LOCAL lnSelect
>lnSelect = SELECT()
>SELECT 0
>IF !used("mylog")
>  CREATE CURSOR mylog (log_id i)
>ENDIF
>APPEND BLANK IN mylog
>replace log_id WITH m.tiID IN mylog
>SELECT (lnSelect)
>RETURN STR(m.tiID)
>

>
>You really should trace the code and see why its failing. Don't guess what's wrong, prove, know! understand! I know I sound like Yoda in Star Wars, but don't start trying a variety of solutions without knowing why you have the problem!
>
>Now, you still have to go and figure out what's wrong with the code.