Cheers, Fred.

PS You're up early! It can't be 5 am there yet as it's only 10:20 here!

Terry

UPDATE: Oh, unless you've just left the 'puter on permanent of course (forgot Americans don't like switching stuff off :-)

>>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:
>>
>>If ALLTRIM( lcrouteid) = "1"
>> x=1 && Just a dummy with the BREAKPOINT
>>EndIf
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Any comment?
>>
>>Terry
>
>Use this:
>
>If ALLTRIM( lcrouteid) == "1"
>
>That will only match the ones that are "exactly equal" to "1"