>I have had my head out of VFP for a while, so I am sorry for the simple question.
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>What is the easiest and quickest way to make a simple collection of strings? Something similar to a .NET StringCollection is what I am looking for. It must be variable length also.

Mike,
What type of string collection you need and approximate count of strings?
In VFP there are many alternative ways, including cursors. You can create a class to almost create one to one copy of its members. Here is a simple alternative to basic usage w/o having all member methods:

Dim myArr() As String = {"RED", "orange", "yellow", "RED", "green", "blue", "RED", "indigo", "violet", "RED"}
      myCol.AddRange(myArr)

alines(myArr,;
 "RED,orange,yellow,RED,green,blue,RED,indigo,violet,RED", ;
 .t.,",")

* for each ...
* for ix = 1 to ...
* ascan(myArr, ...
* dimension ...,acopy(),asort(), ains(),adel(), ...

dimension myArr[alen(myArr),1]
create cursor myStringcollection (myString c(254))
append from array myArr
* and use powerfull cursor based operations which cover all and more of StringCollection members

Also, though weird, a combobox class could be initialized with a RowSourceType of value and RowSource = commma separated string list. It works exceptionally fast if strings are small and the listcount is not huge.

Cetin