>Peter,
>VFP is weakly typed, meaning you don't need to do anything.
>MyVariable = Anything
>You may use a naming convention, or use a name that indicates the type.
>The only declaring is LOCAL, PRIVATE, PUBLIC, and most prefer LOCAL. Arrays are DECLARED, but that's about it.
>LOCAL MyDate
>DECLARE aBunch[2,2]

Hi Charlie - I thought vfp was referred to as "untyped." Weakly typed, or so I recall, was a language like Fortran (I think) where typing was optional. BTW, I had never heard of DECLAREing an array before, but I see it's quite valid. Is that a legacy from dbase or something?