>Please help:
> I'm trying to create a universal data import table based upon the content of another table I call 'schema'. Schema contains the field names, length, type and start and end points of the fields to be imported from a ASCII file. I'm hung up on creating the new data table using just variables to declare the fields. Here is my latest version of code, and it keeps erroring out on the "Alter Table" command.
>
>I really appreciate your help.
>
>Bob Ohrstedt
>RJO Associates
>
>LOCAL lcfile, lcalias, lcreclen, lafields
>
>IF NOT USED('schema')
> USE schema IN 0 SHARED
>ENDIF
>
>CREATE TABLE OhioStreets(fieldnum I(4))
>
>IF NOT used('OhioStreets')
> USE OhioStreets IN 0 EXCLUSIVE
>ENDIF
>SELECT schema
>
>GO top
>
>
>lcfields = ""
>SELECT schema
>SCAN
>
> lcFieldName = schema.desc
> lnLength = schema.length
> lctype = schema.type
>
> ALTER TABLE add column &lcfieldname &lctype(lnlength)
>
>LOOP
>EXIT
>ENDSCAN

Robert,
There are numerous ways which some are even compatible with fox2x :
Assuming your schema table has exactly (Field_Name c(128),Field_Type c(1),Field_len i, Field_dec i + tablename m) structure (you can get this structure and more if you 'create structure extended' for a table)

select Field_Name,Field_Type,Field_len, Field_dec from ;
Schema where tablename = 'OhioStreets' into array myArray
create OhioStreets from array myArray

Your alter table is another way. There as I could see tablename is missing.

ALTER TABLE OhioStreets add column &lcfieldname &lctype(lnlength)

Cetin