>Hi all.
>I have a fixed idea that exist an 'easy' way to store values to the
>various elements of an array instead of creating many lines
>referring the index of row,col. I don't know if this come from CLIPPER
>time or if exist in FoxPro/VFPRO. So please elucidate me.
>The idea hammering my head is that you can store values in this way
>(or something similar):
>

>&& Creating a two dimensional array with 3 rows and storing strings to the elements
>myArray = {{'Value 1','Value 2'}, {'Value 3', 'Value 4'}, {'Value 5','Value 6'}}
>

Not Fox. Javascript, Python, probably many others.

In Fox, if you really want to store a lot of values into an array, you can maybe arrange them in a cursor (which you'd store as XML) and then select into array, or (what I sometimes do)

text to lcA noconsole
value1, value2
value3, value4
value5, value6
endtext
n=alines(aRows, lcA)
dime myA(n,2)
for i=1 to n
   myA[i,1]=getwordnum(aRows, 1, ", ")
   myA[i,2]=getwordnum(aRows, 2, ", ")
endfor

As you see, it isn't that long (I didn't mind typing it :), and the nice part is that you can edit the list at will, including any way to sort it (often I get those lists from somewhere using _Vfp.datatoclip(,,3) and then paste them into code). Sometimes the delimiter is a comma, sometimes a tab, sometimes there's a column of numbers - it depends, but the principle is the same.