>Hi Peter
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>Sorry to jump in. Just to make things clear, you can NOT use locate to do this, because locate will trigger VFP to try to optimize the search, and will then by itself use the indexfile in ascending order. To get the desired result, the last matching record, you must use the following code:
>
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>USE yourfile ORDER yourindex DESCENDING
>SEEK yourvariable
>(or SEEK(yourvariable)
Hi Tore,
You're right. I assumed an index too easliy. :)
Groet,
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