Had a quick play with this last night. I have a customer DBF with account, name and creditlim fields. So this program will list the table out, and then update one of the records. As you can see it is very recognisable to a VFP person, even though you would be able to do several things more concisely in VFP.
using system using system.collections.generic using system.linq using system.text function start() as void strict // -- This opens customers.dbf in the next empty work area, and specifies the CDX file to use. use "customers.dbf" new shared index "customers" select customers // -- Sets the controlling index tag. set order to "account" // -- List out the table. scan ? account, name, creditlim endscan // -- Locate a record using the order set above. seek "ADA0001" if found() // -- It doesn't seem to allow updating a record without an rlock() if rlock() replace creditlim with 1000 unlock endif endif ? "Account ADA0001 credit limit now: " + str(creditlim) wait return -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

