>Sergey,
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>>ALINES() is not a solution but a workaround at best.
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>We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one. I use ALINES() all the time to parse strings into their components. The new arguments that have been added into VFP7 make it even more useful for this purpose.

Why would I disagree with you on this one? I disagreed with you that ALINES() is a solution to filling arrays with different types of data.