It woulbe more confusing for a user than helpful.
You can use SELECT COUNT(*) if you don't want to use COUNT. :)


>Hi everybody,
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>I have a Global Replace form. In this form user may write a FOR condition. I then run a SCAN FOR command to do replace...
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>I'm thinking about adding a progress bar... However, I don't want to count number of records prior to executing this command.
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>I'm wondering, what can you advise here? Do you think, it would not be a much of confusion, if I would just use total number of records in the file to set maximum value of the progress bar?
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>Thanks in advance.