Hi Nigel,

No reason why it shouldn't work that I can see -- although you could, of course, just use

USE IN alias

BTW, it is doculemted in the VFP help -- the USE command can take a numeric work area and the SELECT() function returns a numeric work area, so yourcode simply concatenates

lnWorkArea = select('alias')
use in (lnWorkArea)
* I added the parens to avoid ambiguity in case there was a table open with the alias lnWorkArea

Cheers,

Andrew

>Does anybody know if there are any implications in using the above syntax to close a work area?
>
>I've been using it for some time now and haven't met anybody who's even heard of it. I can't remember where I got it from myself.
>
>It's not documented in VFP Help. I was wondering if there could be any problems caused by using it.
>
>TIA,