>Hi George,
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>I did try initializing the array to zero prior to running the SELECT, but the .NULL. overwrote the initialized value. I see from Aleksey's reply that the return of NULL was by design and when using an array with SELECT-SQL the array will always be created.
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John,

This wasn't always the case, as I recall. I may be mistaken, however, I got into the habit of always dimensioning the array prior to the SQL call. It may have been to keep the compiler from squawking, but I seem to recall that this was the case (at least in 2.6).