>Hi toall,
>
>i have a table1 with an index 'item', my problem is how seek all items starting in 4th position to the 8th positon without changing my index?
>e.g
>abc14421xyz01
>i need to seek all 1442 using seek statement and not select statement.

If you need to do something with these records, you can still use a select statement to find out which records are these:

select item, recno() as rcn from table1;
   where subs(item,4)='1442' into cursor t1
scan
   select table1
   go t1.rcn
* do something here
endscan

Be warned that the use of recno() (as goes for any other function which takes an alias for a parameters) is warranted only because we are having a single table in the select. With more than one table, it wouldn't work as is - then we'd have to split that into a select from a single table into a cursor, and then from that cursor with other tables into the final cursor.