>>>VFP is a horrid choice if you need to do significant amounts of linked list manipulation.
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>>Morning Ed. From what I recall a linked list is a structure much like a database record. Can you give an example of what you mean and why a record in a table wouldn't be appropriate for this?
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>A linked list is a struture that contains pointers to other structures like itsself, so that there is a sequence of travel for the structure - trees and directed graphs are two classical examples of generic classes of things that are best represented with linked lists. Imagine the headaches of traversing and redirecting the traversal of a data table where each record had fields that pointed to several other records in the same table, or might point to nothing.

Ed,

Perahps a 'real world' example would be a multi-level marketing organization? Where I work we used to have (thankfully! *g* though syill maintining the code) one of these. Each Agent had one parent but could have 'n' "child" Agents. Each Agent was 'linked' to their 'parent' agent and visa versa.

Would this fit the definition?

Best,

DD