>Cetin,
>Okay so the next question is how do I create a cursor not knowing beforhandd how many fields are going to be necessary and only having the value of CELIING(line length / 254)
>
>Sandy

lnNeededFcount = CELIING(line length / 254)
create cursor dummy1 (f001 c(254))
for ix=2 to lnNeededCount
    alter table dummy ;
          add column ("f"+padl(ix,3,"0")) c(254)
endfor

Cetin