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Getting the type of a field
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11/07/2001 13:52:07
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00529271
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00529284
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>>>>I have an array which contains the name of some fields in my table. From that array, I would like to extract the type of the field. Is there a way to do that from the array?
>>>
>>>
>>>? type(myfields(i))
>>>
>>
>>That returns N even if my field type is I.
>
>Why not use AFIELDS() find the matching field name and get the data type from column 2?

Yes, that seems to be the only solution to do. But, why TYPE doesn't work on integer?
Michel Fournier
Level Extreme Inc.
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