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                 ISAM available in Professional Edition only
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 Cause the first matching record in an ISAM table to become the current
 record. For example, the record becomes current when the current-index
 column value is:
    • Equal to keyvalue (SEEKEQ)
    • Greater than or equal to keyvalue (SEEKGE)
    • Greater than the argument keyvalue (SEEKGT)
 
 Requires PROISAM.EXE or PROISAMD.EXE in the programming environment
 (VBDOS.EXE).
 
    SEEKGT [#]filenumber% ,keyvalue [,keyvalue]...
    SEEKGE [#]filenumber% ,keyvalue [,keyvalue]...
    SEEKEQ [#]filenumber% ,keyvalue [,keyvalue]...
 
    ■ filenumber%    Number of open ISAM table (same number used
                     in OPEN statement)
 
    ■ keyvalue       Expression less than 256 characters long
 
 See Also
    ◄CREATEINDEX Statement►            ◄DELETEINDEX Statement►
    ◄GETINDEX$ Function►               ◄ISAM Database Development►
    ◄MOVEFIRST Statement►              ◄MOVELAST Statement►
    ◄MOVENEXT Statement►               ◄MOVEPREVIOUS Statement►
    ◄OPEN Statement (File I/O)►        ◄PROISAM Command-Line Options►
    ◄PROISAMD Command-Line Options►    ◄SEEK Function►
    ◄SEEK Statement►