>>You need to watch out with arrays -- with a large enough number
>>of files, you can exceed the array size limits of VFP..
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>Limit is 65,000 elements per array, or about 21,500 files with descriptions, and if you chop off descriptions, then 32,500.
Not in VFP 9.
From HELP:
Maximum # of elements per array. Normal: 2 gigabytes
Member array: 2 gigabytes
Array of member objects: 65,000
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