>Hi Nigel,
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>Interestingly, DIMENSION a_array[0] or DIMENSION a_array[65001] generates an "Invalid subscript reference in VFP 6.0 SP3, rather than error 230. Further, DIMENSION a_array[33000, 2] generates a "Too many variables" error. In fact, the only way I was able to generate error 230 was to use the ERROR command. Now this was in the development environment rather than run-time, so your explaination could be correct in the latter. However, there are instances where spurious error messages are generated. For example, if you issue a SET ORDER TO MYTAG, and MYTAG doesn't exist, VFP generates a "Syntax Error". So I'm not so sure that the DIMENSION statement is the problem.
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>Perhaps if Tim would post the line of code that's generating the error, we could get some more insight into this.

I found the same as you some time after I posted the reply (I was quoting from the help file). I couldn't generate the correct message either. BTW, I just happened to be working on the *Syntax Error* issue today at work!