Randy,

I've worked around this by adding a row to the array and defining the field name, type, size, etc. in the new array row prior to creating the cursor.

Jim Fisher


>Quick response - thank you. I still must be missing something though. I changed the column name to be less than 10 characters - even the field itself is a c(10) now and I get a different error message: Invalid operation for the cursor.
>
>>>You guys have been very helpfull in the past. Thank you ahead of time for any responses.
>>>
>>>I am trying to add a column to a cursor created by the Afields command but I am getting the error message on the alter statement: Field name is a duplicate or invalid.
>>>
>>>Select invoiceitems
>>>ordnumfields = Afields(orditemfieldarray)
>>>Create Cursor orditemview From Array orditemfieldarray
>>>alter table orditemview add column toplevelitem c(20)
>>>
>>>-Randy
>>
>>AFAIK the problem was discussed here and you can not alter cursor to add a field with more than 10 chars.