You mention set exact, and that's the reason. Try with set exact on.

>Me going potty or what? I've been importing a series of bus routes from an ACII text file. I noticed there were several input recs with the same Route ID, i.e. "1 ". Each route ID is forced into a 4-char var, lcRouteID. I wanted to catch each time I encountered one so I threw in the following code, to catch them in debug:
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>If ALLTRIM( lcrouteid) = "1"
> x=1 && Just a dummy with the BREAKPOINT
>EndIf
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>Unfortunately this halted on every route that began with 1, e.g. "137 ", "100 ", "1A ". I think this is wrong. It should have nothing to do with "Set exact" et al.
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>Any comment?
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>Terry