How to Create a Table that Has Many Fields of Identical Size

Last reviewed: November 16, 1995
Article ID: Q139527

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

Creating tables that contain many fields can be time consuming, especially if all the fields have the same type and size. With a few lines of code, the table can be created easily.

MORE INFORMATION

The following program creates a table called newtable that has 200 fields, each defined as a character field of size 20:

   lnTblstr="("
   FOR lnI=1 to 200
     lnTblstr=lnTblstr+"FLD"+ALLTRIM(STR(lnI))+" C(20),"
   ENDFOR
   lnTblstr=STUFF(lnTblstr,LEN(lnTblstr),1,")")
   CREATE TABLE newtable FREE &lnTblstr

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Last reviewed: November 16, 1995
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