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Bob
>Hi Bob
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>>Hello Terry,
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>>There is no issue adding fields to a cursor in this manor,
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>But can you do it in the next-door manor? :-)
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>>it will give you all the fields from the table plus add the new fields.
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>>Bob
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>>>Now I'd've thought it either takes the * to mean "all fields in the selected table", in which case the stipulation of the other fields should cause an error
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>Aye, I've just realised that I was thinking of the primative SQL in MapInfo's Mapbasic, with which I've had many a struggle, and that's not allowed there.
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>:-)
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