Sergey,

>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.

I didn't see that that was what you were disagreeing with. Your code examples showed filling the array with a single datatype.

You said alines() was a workaround. I think it's a good function to load up an array with static data or data from a file.