>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>The way to populate an array from a current cursor is as follows:
>>>>>

>>>>>local array aDbfStruct[1]
>>>>>afields( aDbfStruct )
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>But if you are using a SQL Server Native Client, some fields (e.g. Varchar(MAX) fields) will have the length 0.
>>>>>So, I need to remove these elements from the array aDbfStruct. Or exclude these elements when creating another cursor using the code:
>>>>>

>>>>>create cursor CUR_MYCURSOR from array aDbfStruct
>>>>>

>>>>>
>>>>>How do you remove all elements from the above array which have element 3 equal to 0 (zero)? Or, can the above CREATE CURSOR be modified to ignore the "bad" fields?
>>>>>
>>>>>UPDATE: I can scan the array and check each element 3 for a value of 0 and delete it. But I thought maybe there is a more efficient way to delete those elements.
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>like this?
>>>>

>>>>COPY STRUCTURE EXTENDED to TabXYZ
>>>>sele cur1.* from TabXYZ as Cur1 into array aDbfStruct where FIELD_LEN=0
>>>>use in TabXYZ
>>>>dele TabXYZ.*
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>and
>>>>

>>>>COPY STRUCTURE EXTENDED to TabXYZ
>>>>dele from TabXYZ where FIELD_LEN=0
>>>>create newtable from TabXYZ
>>>>use in TabXYZ
>>>>dele TabXYZ.*
>>>>

>>>>should work w/o array
>>>
>>>I will try this. Thank you. Although I am thinking if this is more efficient that deleting elements from the array.
>>
>>It should be better then looping through the array
>>No FOR .. ALEN() to 1 step -1, no IF, no ADEL, no DIMENSION.
>>Faster, less complex code.
>>The need to create a file and delete it is odd, but that can't be helped. Try to target GETENV('temp') dir
>>update: consider to use some unique name like sys(2015) too. Much fun if two process create the same file .... SYS(2015) is not fool prove, but less likely.
>
>With my luck, the less likely will turn out to be :) I will consider your approach. Thank you.

Then you must create a UUID and name the file like that. This is fool prove. (But, given the extra time to create the UUID a FOR NEXT loop might be finished in this time too) ;)