François,

Someone earlier gave you what could be a strong possibility. . . that you do *not* necessarily get a cursor with this type of SELECT.

Assuming VFP 5, try it with a NOFILTER clause and see if that changes things at all.

Good luck,

Jim N

>I tried what you told me but the result is always the same, RECCOUNT() returns 1 whereas _tally returns 0.
>
>There is something strange here. Sammie Simmons ran my code and didn't obtain the same result. Is this can be caused by special SET statements ?
>
>>Try moving ? _TALLY immediately after the SELECT.
>>
>>Prior to ?RECCOUNT(), do SELECT tmp.
>>
>>-myron kirby-
>>=======================
>>>Is there an explanation why RECCOUNT() doesn't return the right value in the following code ?
>>>
>>>
>>>create table t1 (f1 C(1))
>>>insert into t1 (f1) VALUES ("A")
>>>
>>>create table t2 (f1 C(1))
>>>insert into t2 (f1) VALUES ("B")
>>>index on f1 tag f1
>>>
>>>select "t1"
>>>scan
>>> SELECT * FROM t2 WHERE f1 = t1.f1 INTO CURSOR tmp
>>> ? reccount() && display 1
>>> ? _tally && display 0
>>>endscan
>>>
>>>
>>>RECCOUNT() returns 1 while it is supposed to return 0. This problem occurs only if you create an index on f1 in table t2. Without the index, it returns 0.
>>>
>>>Thanks.