>About thirty years ago I was doing something such as this with DOS Basic.
>Can it be done in VFP or is a vfp array recommended?
>Or am I just old and I forgot?
>
>

>For RecordCount = 1 To TheEndOfTheFile
>Goto RecordCount
>NumericValue = Datafile.n1
>nFOO(RecordCount) = NumericValue &&  <<<<
>Next RecordCount
>

Would
SCAN

ENDSCAN

work for you?

What exactly is the problem?