O well, I never trusted this function and stopped using it long time ago. You certanly can progran in VFP w/o it.

>Hi Sergey,
>
>No, also with only alpha character LOOKUP fails.
>
>

>CLEAR
>CREATE CURSOR mcur ( F1 C(5) NOT null)
>INSERT INTO mcur VALUES ('AB')
>INSERT INTO mcur VALUES ('A B')
>SET EXACT ON
>sExp='AB    '
>? 'WITH SCAN',LOOKUP(F1,m.sExp,F1)
>INDEX ON F1 TAG TAGERR
>? 'WITH SEEK',LOOKUP(F1,m.sExp,F1)
>

>
>Fabio