Try following test. Do you still get an error?

CREATE CURSOR test (comment01 m)
SCATTER NAME loPaid MEMO
lnloop = 1
STORE ALLTRIM("lcRequest.COMMENT") TO ("loPaid.COMMENT" + PADL(lnloop, 2, '0'))

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> I do it the way you suggested, and I get a compile error of: Invalid use of a Visual FoxPro function as an array.
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