>Tom, Sarah,
>all that comes up when run is "syntax error". nothing more. through the program error log i found what line of code it was.
>
>and the STR(alabels[1]) line of code was trying if it was a type error. with or without the str() convertion, it doesn't work.
>
>Jordan

I'd do a wait window to see just what is in alabels[i], could be that that is corrupt. I think field names have start with an alpha, check all those good rules.

however
fox has got a standard array to table function. It's not a big deal to delete the file at the end so it might be just as easy to use that.

Sarah