Marc,

There is no need to write anything

local aa[1]
aa = m.o.range("myRange").Value
?alen(aa, 1)
?alen(aa, 2)

&& look at aa in the debugger - all the values are there - you've got  the array you asked for

>Thank you very much Gregory.
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>The advantage of using the Clipboard is performance. The copy function dumps the range into a string in vfp, the cells are separated by tabs (Ascii 9) (not checked how rows are separated, but that's easy to find out). Was just hoping someone had already written a function that de-compiles that.
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>Take care and kind regards,
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>Marc
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