>>Each array takes 1 entry in the name table; there is a limit on the size of the name table separate from the size of an array. There was some limit where the name table space starts interfering with the upper bound of the number of elements in the array, but I'm not sure when that limit was from. The older Fox documentation for 2.x related memory size rather than the name space size as the key factor, but we no longer can control the memory for the string space explicitly.
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>Do you mean that MVSIZE no longer is useful in VFP, or is that the real limiting factor for array contents?

MVSIZE is no longer useful, and it was an interaction of MVSIZE and MVCOUNT that imposed the limitation on the string space. I don't know what the current limits are beyond the name limit and the fact that the string space is very large but finite.