>>hi all,
>>i know that its not the most important thing in the world but i was wondering what was the better/faster code to use when searching a table using a locate command (no index for seek), if eof() OR if found().
>>Slán
>>~M
>
>FOUND(). Not only because of what others have said, but also because if the locate command is changed to include a "while", eof() will be inaccurate.
>

seek x
>locate for y while x
>if found()  && eof() might fail here!
>endif

Another case:

...
replace f1 with 2
LOCATE NEXT 1 FOR f1=1
* EOF(),FOUND() return .F.