The function is not dying. It is just not popular. I always believed it is because the docs state that it is not Rushmore Optimizable. Seek isn't really Rushmore Optimizable either, but the docs don't say that.

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>I love the LOOKUP function, but forgot to mention it! Not many use it.
>LOOKUP is probably the fastest way to seek a record and return a value.
>Too bad first parameter is not an expression!!!!
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>This is the best VFP function.
>The best of the best is this:
>the REPLACE can do the operation without the index,
>remove the index parameter and if the a index exist VFP optimize it with a true SEEK
>(not like a partial seek done into the FOR clause),
>otherwise it do a scan with 2X faster respext to a FOR .
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>Sin that this command is dying.
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>I have put a wish for a
>LOOKUP(expr,...)
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>LOOKUPRECNO(expr,nRecNo,'Alias') ( use a table like a rows array )
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>Fabio