A strange looking one indeed.

Is it possible that you have some dbc-resident code (stored procedures) that is also using the variable name?

good luck

PS Is the variable defined LOCAL or what?

>I have an old program now being rewritten in visual. It uses a public variable 'gnitemnumb'. When a TABLEUPDATE() is issued the variable value is changing. When we set DEBUG on and trace the code it does not change. The code is as follows:
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>gnitemnumb = 1                         && variable is set
>TABLEUPDATE(.t.)
>wait window STR(gnitemnumb)            && displays a 0
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>The name 'gnitemnumb' is not associated with the table in any way (i.e. field name, index name) and if we change the variable name to 'gnitemnumb1' it all works fine.
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>Any ideas as to why this may be happening?
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>Thanks,
>Hetty