I also showed how to do that w/o using macro substitution. :)

>Michale
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>> I have a table need to add fields to a exact number? How can I do it? The following code have error ,How to change it?
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>To add to Sergey's correct reply that fieldnames cannot begin with a number, here is a way to do this.
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LOCAL lni, lcFld
>CREATE TABLE Temp (Field1 N(8))
>FOR lni = FCOUNT("TEMP") + 1 TO 38
>	lcFld = "Field" + LTRIM(STR(lni,2))
>	ALTER TABLE Temp ADD COLUMN &lcFld N(8)
>NEXT lni
>BROWSE