I can't imagine that the time is significantly different here. What many devs fail to take into account is how difficult will it be to understand the code a year from now when you have to modify it. Almost certainly the array code will be harder to understand and change than cursor code.

>Thanks Madam.But ASCAN() Will search for the Exact existence of record. is it possible with ACSN () to search like record, I mean to say that
>If the Array Element consist of "F2 B (Usage Charges)387 530 w" than is it possible to search 'Usage Charges' from Array element and Extract 300 from it using ASCAN.
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>currently I am Scanning the entire array using For ENFOR and using IF 'Usage Charges' $ laArray(I)=.T., like this