>Hi all,
>
>I have a problem wherein I need to create a cursor for a form grid and the number of fields may be different with any given call to the form.
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>I create the cursor and then load it with fields from several tables.
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>The problem lay in the create cursor command where I need to specify the fields. On one occasion there may need to be 15 fields, but on another occasion only 10.
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>Does anyone have an idea on how to create a cursor with varying number of fields?
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>Perhaps I should just use a cursor with many fields and ignore those I don't need.
>
>TIA,
>Dave

Dave, you can try to prepare character string first:

myCursor = "employee (EmpID N(5), Name C(20), Address C(30), City C(30))"

and then use the macrosubstitution.

CREATE CURSOR &mycursor

Nick