>>I would agree with most of the others here and say that FOUND() is the better choice. >SET NEAR ON can break the use of EOF() whereas FOUND() will always be accurate.
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>Jim
>Do you mean to say that if "Set Near" is set ON and if you are trying to seek partial variable, "If not eof()" will be .T. but found() will be .F. ???
>Shafid
The whole idea of SET NEAR is that if an exact match is not found, the closest matching record will be selected. Therefore, EOF will NOT be true.
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