>Hi All,
>
>I'm currently encountering a quirck in my code:
>

local array laFld[ 12 ]
>laFld = ''

>After the first line the array is nicely created:
>

LAFLD       Local  A
>        (   1)     L  .F.
>        (   2)     L  .F.
>        (   3)     L  .F.
>        (   4)     L  .F.
>        (   5)     L  .F.
>        (   6)     L  .F.
>        (   7)     L  .F.
>        (   8)     L  .F.
>        (   9)     L  .F.
>        (  10)     L  .F.
>        (  11)     L  .F.
>        (  12)     L  .F.

>After the second line the array is gone and replaced by a simple variable:
>

LAFLD       Local  C  ""

>This finding is equal with other array names and other indexes (instead of 12).
>
>It's in VFP7 SP1, W2K.
>
>Is this happening to others too, occasionally?

I've never seen that. I get an array with "" values for all 12 entries. I use code to initialize arrays like that all over the place. Are those two consecutive lines? No chance you've released the variable or something like that in between?