>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.

There was a thread in foxclub regarding instantiating VB like array. I was unable to find it, may be you would have better luck. If I remember correctly, it was Yuri Rubinov's suggestion, I may try to search by his name instead, but I'm not certain.