Here's what I need to do. I have a table, we'll call it
"file_layout.dbf" that contains 2 fields. One field is labeled
"fld_name" and the other is labeled "width". It has 60 records in it
identifying the names of the fields and their widths that I need to be

I have a common task where I need to add a set of fields to incoming files.
The trouble is that some of the files already have some of the fields so it
hangs with an error. I usually just hit ignore so I can go on, but there must
nbe a way to do this with either an on error ...