>>>Why are you bothering with filetostr()? If the data is in a memo field, then just Scatter memvar memo and deal with it just like any other variable.
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>>while the technique works, I think this day and age the hint should be along the lines of

>>scatter memo name oScat

>>for maintainance ease unless it is a very low number of memo fields (think # of thumbs...)
>>and then including a "like mem1, mem2" clause for memvar...
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>My point being that she doesn't need to mess with the FileToStr() function. I rarely do a scatter memvar unless I've got 3000+ (I exagerate) fields to insert into another table. Mostly, I pull the record I need into a temp table and work with it from there.

My point being that when you have x tables of y fields scattering to memvar is bad practice,
as there is not only the chance to trample on existing vars, but also duplicate field names...
scatter to array in FPW was a bit unwieldy, but scattering into objects just makes sense...