It is not a bug, but perhaps a serious limitation. The help does explain that General fields are not included with the SCATTER and GATHER commands.
There are other reasons, too, NOT to use general fields. I would recommend that you avoid them. Usually there are better alternatives.
>Hello,
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>I´ll try to explain.
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>I have a progam that works with free and contained tables. That´s why I need to use the TO ARRAY words.
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>I have a table with a General Field.
>I try to use SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO TO ARRAY but it doesn´t recognize General fields -and doesn´t return an error-.
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>If the table has 10 fields with one GENERAL , and that field is in the middle the posterior fields in the array moves one position.
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>SO,
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>Does anybody has a similar function / vcx that mimics the SCATTER / GATHER functions?
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>Regards,
>Pablo V
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