Sortof... You are close to what I need it for. I don't need to grab every variable in memory actually, but grabbing a range like in the 'SAVE TO memory.sav ALL LIKE mpo*' command but using it create a table would be terrific.

Tracy

>Oh, I see...I thought you wanted one record for each variable. You want a field every variable? What if you have more than 255 variables? I guess you need to redesign your app in that case *grin*
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>That would be a pain...you would have to read through the resulting text file, create an array holding all the variable names, types, and values, and create a long create cursor command, then iterate through the array to assign the values to the fields.
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>Is this for an error routine?
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>>But how to create the table to begin with? I'd have to look at everything in memory and see the type of data in the variable, the size, etc and then manually 'create cursor ...' right? I wish there was a better way! I'd like to take all variables in memory and create a table that has the same field names as the variable names (and arrays) and gather into it... oh well, I guess I was dreaming!
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>>Tracy
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>>>Hey Trace,
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>>>The only way I can think is to LIST MEMORY TO FILE < filename > NOCONSOLE , and import the file into a table.
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>>>>Anyway to create a temporary cursor that matches all variables in memory without knowing the variable names, type, and contents beforehand?
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>>>>TIA,
>>>>Tracy