Array question

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When asked his whereabouts on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 03:53:16PM -0600,
Aldridge, Inc. took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
> dim scremp(7)(26,uplow):ga
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> But in the present case, I want to fill 24 dummy fields, say aa-ax with 
> the contents of 24 sequential fields in a lookup file beginning with 
> field 50 there.
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> Is that a good way to accomplish this? If yes, but where in this example 
> would I tell the local array to begin, i.e. aa?
> 
> I'm missing some level of understanding here and would appreciate some 
> insights or suggestions. Thanks

I haven't tested, but I -highly- doubt that array overlay will work on
dummy fields.  To my knowledge, this is only meant to work on real, numeric
fields.

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