Mike,
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>select * from table into array m.latest && error select statement is invalid
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this is a VFP bug.

>select * from table into array latest && works
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>An array is not a memvar. By the way, others documented that SELECT into array produced an error as far back as FPW.

An array is a memvar, of course, and it consume a MVCOUNT element.

Another example; you can transform a scalar memvar into a array memvar:

CLEAR
local memvar
memvar="local"
LIST MEMORY LIKE "m*"
DIMENSION m.memvar[1]
LIST MEMORY LIKE "m*"
RELEASE memvar

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