>BOb,
>
>Your second example will do the replace on ALL records where the for condition is met, every time through the loop. (The ALL keyword is implied by FOR).
>

Woopps... I ment to pull that FOR off of there...

>>
>>Which to me would be more correct as:
>>
>>

>>Replace ALL city with "" for  suburb = city
>>

>>
>>OR
>>
>>

>>SCAN
>>   if suburb = city
>>      Replace city with "" for  suburb = city
>>   endif
>>ENDSCAN
>>

>>