Denis,
I'd guess it's because VFP doesn't have to look up the hierachical reference to the var, for each record it "inspects" during the SQL. Instead it has a memory var "to hand"
Terry
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
