The best way is not to use public variables at all.

>Gee... I am full of questions today.
>
>I have a VFP 6.0 .PRG program with a bunch of variables declared as shown below.
>My question is -
>I can have up to 50 medic, O_att, O_succ, and O_pts variables each.
>What's the best way to declare them as the number of medics can fall anywhere between 0 and 50? Same with O_att and the others. I don't want to waste time making medic7, medic8 and so on up to 50 if there is a better way.
>Thanks for the advice.
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>PUBLIC medic1 medic2 medic3 medic4 medic5 medic6
>PUBLIC O_att1 O_att2 O_att3 O_att4 O_att5 O_att6
>PUBLIC O_succ1 O_succ2 O_succ3 O_succ4 O_succ5 O_succ6
>PUBLIC O_pts1 O_pts2 O_pts3 O_pts4 O_pts5 O_pts6
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