James, thanks for your solution,

Why do you also need to say its an array... you dont need to do this with Numeric and Character or logical variables. 'Localizing ' them seems to be enough.

regards,

Gerard


>Gerard,
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>You must declare the variable local
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LOCAL myArray

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>AND declare it to be an array,
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DIMENSION myArray( 1 )

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>There are a number of ways of doing both at the same time, but I like the two-step process to make certain I don't forget to do it.
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>Regards,