Hugo,

No apology necessary - it was a serious question with rhetorical overtones.

I had gotten 'through' the save by coding 0 in the first element and the #of elements, but felt that that wasn't correct. I'm happy that someone knows that the proper thing to code is -1, and will change the code accordingly.

The "Help" (in quotes here for obvious reasons) states "If you omit..." several times. It does mention coding -1, but solely in the context of VFP6.

Thanks Hugo.

>>I hope this gets through in the right forum/category - looks like Michel & co. are changing things on-the-fly AGAIN!!!
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>>Where do I find, in VFP Help, the proper "rules" for omitting arguments (parameters) in function calls.
>>Comes up for me with ASCAN(), which turns out not to seem to mean "omit" as defined in my dictionary but rahter "omit" in some specific VFP definition.
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>>Thanks
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>Jim, I can not answer your question, but I can guess that the problem with ASCAN is that you want to omit one parameter, and VFP passes it as .F., giving you an error. I think you can pass -1 to the parameter you want to omit, and I think that would solve your problem, if you had one and it was not just a rethorical example, in which case I appologize.