>My co-worker came to me with a weird problem. He has some code that should blow up, but is running and I can not explain it.
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>He has a Department field in table Depts. In this case, Depts.Department="A"
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>He has a field that indicates if a department should print or not. In this case, it's NOPRINT and NOPRINT = .F.
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>His statement is in a loop and it looks like this:
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>IF ALLTRIM(depts.Department) == NOPRINT
> SKIP
>ENDIF
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>If you are in the debugger, the program breezes right past the IF and it evaluates to TRUE, effectively skipping the record.
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>"A"==.F. should give an error.
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>In the watch window, the same expression - ALLTRIM(depts.Department) == NOPRINT - shows up as an error. There isn't any ON ERROR set either. The same expression in the command window returns an error.
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>Is there any reason why the program would evaluate the illegal expression to TRUE?
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>Thanks,
>Tim

Could it be that you have NOPRINT defined as constant in .h file? Though field should still have precedance.