You're welcome - I was trying a few things and voila - there it was

>You are absssssolutely right !!! Thank you soooooo very much!
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>>Marc,
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>>There is no need to write anything
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>>

>>local aa[1]
>>aa = m.o.range("myRange").Value
>>?alen(aa, 1)
>>?alen(aa, 2)
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>>&& look at aa in the debugger - all the values are there - you've got  the array you asked for
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>>>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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