Sergey is correct, as always. :)

But for character data, we should mention that there is another option in VFP7. You can use the ALINES function, with a parsechar, to fill your array:

ALINES(_array, "Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec",.f., ",")

Using ALINES is slightly slower, at runtime, than assigning each element of the array on a separate line of code, but it's not enough to worry about unless you're doing it thousands of times in a loop.

You could also use this method for numeric data types, but you'd have to put them in as character data first, and then loop through with VAL function to convert them to numeric. That wouldn't be the most efficient method at runtime, but it's quick and easy to program. :)

-Tom


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