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>>Also, rather that using AFIELDS, you could
>>SELECT * FROM tablename INTO CURSOR cursorname NOFILTER
>>to get a copy of your original table for reporting.
>
>You raise an interesting point here Mark. That sure is a way to create a cursor based on an existing structure. The cursor will contain every record in the original dataset. I often want an empty cursor.
>You could go
>SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE .F. INTO CURSOR cursorname NOFILTER
>however this is not Rushmore optimizable (try it on a huge dataset!)
>So....
>Does anyone know a fast one liner for creating an empty cursor based on an existing structure?

Just an interesting tidbit here- when you open a view with the NODATA clause, internally, VFP uses an SQL statement like the following to return an empty cursor:

SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE 1=0

I learned this on accident when a my error handler trapped the incorrect executing line of code, and this showed up.