>Fred,
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>Can't you use FSIZE()? Combined with your suggestion this should work.
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See replies to/from Mark to/from me. ;)

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>>>I need to find out information about a field in a table. However, this field may not be in my currently selected table, and I do not want to use AFIELDS because it returns too much information to wade through. Specifcally, I need to know the type, size, and (if applicable) decimal precision of my field. I haven't found a native VFP function that will provide this information for a single field. A simple UDF seems to be my next option, so any suggestions in that direction would be appreciated.
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>>Sorry, AFIELDS() is one of the few ways that can return all the information about a field like width and precision for numeric fields. You can get the number of decimal places, but not the width of a numeric field:
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>>nWidth = 20
>>nDecimals  = nWidth - RAT(".",PADL(numericfield,nWidth))
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