Dave,

You can create an array containing one row per field and use CREATE CURSOR FROM ARRAY aMyArray

Check out the AFIELDS() command to see what the specs for the array are.

>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