$hits returns to the total number of occurrences that match the specified query, for which UNIFACE will have to find and read into memory all the associated records.

$currhits returns the current number of records in the hitlist. A negative value indicates that the current hitlist is not complete and that UNIFACE has only read some of the records matching your search criteria.

Tip: In debug, from later versions of UNIFACE Six onwards, $hits returns the same value as $currhits:

whereas in your proc code a negative value for $hits indicates that an error has occurred (usually the entity specified does not exist).

In version 5, and early versions of UNIFACE Six, examining $hits in the debugger, would complete the hitlist, and retrieve all the matching records.

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