Thanks, Josh. Both your suggestion and Nick's should solve the problem.

>Dave,
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>You can create an array containing one row per field and use CREATE CURSOR FROM ARRAY aMyArray
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>Check out the AFIELDS() command to see what the specs for the array are.
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>>Hi all,
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>>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.
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>>TIA,
>>Dave