>>>What is the function that returns the column/field count of an alias?
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>>Jay -- I've found Google to be an excellent resource for questions like this. Now I hardly ever crack open the foxpro help (which may or may not give the answer) -- in this case I would just type:
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>>number of fields in foxpro table
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>>into Google search. In this case, result number 3 would give you the answer.
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>>I use google to puzzle through office automation, esoteric Foxpro bugs and just about any programming question I can think of. Faster than waiting for an answer on UT...
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>And sometimes I do. But, you must not post many questions here as the response is usually faster than Google...

Really? Google is instantaneous, whereas UT is not. (it's the people-lag...)

I guess the question really is: "What is the question?" I've gotten so used to formulating my questions that give me good answers usually within the first 5-10 links.

Oh, well...