Sure. Since the keyword DECIMAL is used in another context in other databases, it would indeed be helpful if VFP would at least give an error message.
>Hi, Hilmar
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>You're right, it's obvious what's happening - VFP looks only at the first letter.
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>CREATE CURSOR myCursor (myField Grigore(5,3))
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>creates a general datatype field.
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>I was asking because I tend to consider this as a bug. VFP should error, not to create a wild guess datatype field. What do you think?
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>Thanks.
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