>>The only exception to this is when select doesn't return any rows. Then the array's original size and values are preserved.
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>Correct, that is my case.
>When one is working with the application for the first time, there are yet no records in the tables and this will result in 10 rows with .F. which I do not like.
>So I will now parse through the array and replace all the .f. values with '' easy enough

Even easier

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