Thanks; I find this an interesting alternative, but in many cases (it seems to me) the steps can NOT be coded into a single expression that returns .T. or .F. For instance, I do a SELECT - SQL, and want to check that exactly one record was found (_tally = 0).
Hilmar.
>Hilmar,
>
>if you have to process more than one or two lines of code in each step, this might be an (ok, a little unusual) option. As long as your single step functions return .T., the next function is run. If all functions return .T., OTHERWISE is the last step.
>
>
>DO CASE
> CASE NOT DoFirstStep()
> llSuccess = .F.
> CASE NOT DoSecondStep()
> llSuccess = .F.
> CASE NOT DoThirdStep()
> llSuccess = .F.
> OTHERWISE
> llSuccess = .T.
>ENDCASE
>
>*-- Clean up
>
>RETURN llSuccess
>
>
>Armin
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