Rasheed,

>Hi Ed
>The code is like this.
>Select ATR 'This file is > 6000 records'
>copy to array aATR while order_no = lcOrder_no for !empty(order_no)
>
>In this case not more than 50 records will be copied so 500 elements maximum.
>So why would I get the error message of not enough memory with 500 elements only.
>Thanks

Well if lcOrderNo is a null string then ALL records would qualify. To check this simple possibility you could change your statement to
...order_no == lcOrder_no...
and see if the situation changes.

good luck,

JimN