>Sergey,
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>I just ran your code with another purpose in mind - to see what would end up in the "Date1" field of table OutPut.
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>It was a surprise to me that Date1 was filled with the date - I had expected it to remain 'empty', assuming that the replace command would 'halt' at that point.
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>I then changed the first replace to not use function "Repl1", saying "...Date1 with DATE()" instead. As expected, I got the overflow, but I surprisingly (to me) also got a date in the Date1 field.
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>Is my expectation - that an unbuffered REPLACE will fill fields named UNTIL it hits an error, then any fields there and beyond remain unchanged - INCORRECT??? I could have sworn it always worked as I expected!?!?!
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Fortunately, I don't have much expirience with Numeric Overflow error in the replace command. :) However, I seems to remember that it would stop on the field with overflow. Maybe it was Gather, not Replace?

Anyway, I just tested that code in FPW 2.6a and got the same result as in VFP 7.