Aliased arrays (Was Re: Is there anyway...)

[Kenneth Brody]

John Hemmer wrote:
[...]
> > Then:  DIM Ary[NUMFIELDS]:1
> > Then:  Ary[F]=V
[...]
> What I did not realize is the Full Power of the filepro DIM statement.
> Though I have used it a lot,  I was under the impresession that one
> had to explicitly define the field lenght and edit type of each field
> aliased.
[...]

When aliasing the array to fields, each entry in the array will take on
the characteristics of the aliased fields.  In fact, in the above example,
array[n] actually _is_ field n, and not just an identical copy.

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