>Array properties of objects in VFP 6 are marked as Variants and not arrays. This causes the ALEN function to fail on them when they are passed to other objects. You can still access them as arrays but you dont know the dimensions.
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>I am considering only passing the object with XML, but I am frustrated with the fact that an array is not an array!
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>Any suggestions/ideas?

Rick,

This got broke when they fixed the fact that VFP arrays could never be passed to non-VFP apps. VFPs arrays can only be handled by VFP, so to allow passing them to other apps they are converted to variants.

JimB