> However, if you concider parsing with FieldByName
> to be a commonly used field existance check, then
> I would still recommand a nil result
> on existance failiure due to IBO conversions.

FieldByName raises an exception, this is intentional (by design).
Probably a large part of the reason for this is that it is consistent
with how the equivalent function works in TDataset. I would not
expect it to be changed (there could be many people depending on the
exception).

Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing