Thanks you Sergey, that works.

Mal

>See Re: Adir() help Message #909954
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>>I've never used ADIR() nor arrays. I'm trying to get files names from a network directory (mapped as Z:\) into a VFP cursor. This is what I've tried so far:
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>>SET PATH TO Z:\
>>filecount = ADIR(existingfiles,'*.MPG')
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>>? filecount will display 24110
>>DISPLAY MEMEORY existingfiles will displays all of the file information.
>>
>>Now, I'd like to get this information from array 'existingfiles' into a VFP cursor by doing the following:
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>>CREATE CURSOR filedata FROM ARRAY existingfiles
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>>This produces a "Array dimensions are invalid" error message.
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>>What am I missing.
>>
>>TIA