>Can anyone tell me how to search table without moving a record pointer?
>I have table in record buffering mode. I'm adding a new record and I want check some field contents before 'tableupdate'-ing.
>I used KEYMATCH function but when I called it, validation rules for the record activated. It seems to me that KEYMATCH is changing a recno of the searched table.

Andrezej,

You could try opening the table AGAIN with a different alias and performing the check on this veriosn of the file - that way the record pointer won't be changed on the buffered table.

Ian