>>Actually, what I did was create a cursor with a maximum number of fields and then APPEND BLANK and GATHER NAME for each object. I end up with some extra fields that aren't used for every record, but it solved the problem.
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>If the fields are always named a specific way, then this is a good and simple solution.
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>I was trying to figure out a more generic solution when field names and their types are not known in advance.

They are named the same for what I'm working on right now.

Field001, Field002, etc.

I then have to map those for a particular row to something more meaningful. It's sort of interim way of parsing out an incoming string of ANSI values into a cursor.