Kevin,
I just copied that code and posted it into a prg in VFP7 and it ran fine without error.
>I'm using VFP 7, and I just tried:
>
>LOCAL myarray1[1,2]
>myarray1[1,1] = "hello"
>myarray1[1,2] = "good bye"
>
>LOCAL ARRAY myarray2[1,2]
>myarray2[1,1] = "hello"
>myarray2[1,2] = "good bye"
>>
>and I got errors or other problems.