>literal array= {item1,"item2",3,"etc..."}

Unfortunately this type of list processing/array setting isn't available in foxpro. You have to set each element explicitly. However for small sets you could create a method parsing a list to array for you. OTOH for some featureas like table structure, fonts, classes etc there are built-in commands placing them into array like afields(), afonts(),aclass() etc.
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