As a former Clipper-programmer I can say - there IS NO a simple, comfortable way to manipulate arrays in VFP.
No simple defining of arrays (nested also) like

LOCAL MyArray:={{1,2,3}, {3,4}, {"something", "else"}}

nor managing them. In VFP you need first prepare your data somehow to place them into some object,
conditionally called "an array". Cursor, container... Big omission of VFP.
These possibilities came into Clipper beginning from 5.0x versions, not only in latest 5.3.