>John,
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>Thanks for your reply to my question. Unfortunately, when I called SCATTER in the following way:
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>SCATTER FIELDS (cRecord_field_name), (cFirstname_field_name), ... TO laFieldInfo
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>where '...' represents the rest of the field names. I got a general syntax error. I set up the values of THIS.record_field_name, THIS.firstname_field_name, etc. by calling the function in my original message. I then declared some LOCAL variables (i.e. cRecord_Field_Name, etc.) and assigned them the values of THIS.record_field_name, etc.
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>Have I done something else wrong?
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>Thanks again,
>
>Henry

cFieldstring=cRecord_field_name+","+cFirstname_field_name+","+.....
SCATTER FIELDS &cFieldstring. TO laFieldInfo