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**AddPair(**// left, right //**), VIRTUAL**

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| **AddPair** | Adds a field pair to the List property. |
| //left// | The label of the "left" field of the pair. The field may be any data type, but may not be an array. |
| //right// | The label of the "right" field of the pair. The field may be any data type, but may not be an array. |

The **AddPair **method adds a field pair to the List property. The fields need not be contiguous in memory, nor do they need to be part of a structure. Therefore you can build a virtual structure simply by adding a series of otherwise unrelated fields to a FieldPairs object. The other FieldPairs methods then operate on this virtual structure.

**Implementation:**

AddPair assumes the List property has already been created by Init or by some other method.

By calling AddPair for a series of fields (for example, the corresponding fields in a RECORD structure and a QUEUE structure), you effectively build two virtual structures containing the fields and a (one-to-one) relationship between the two structures.

**Example:**

** INCLUDE('ABUTIL.INC')            !declare FieldPairs Class**

**Fields  FieldPairsClass           !declare FieldPairs object**

**Customer FILE,DRIVER('TOPSPEED'),PRE(CUST)**

**ByNumber KEY(CUST:CustNo),NOCASE,OPT,PRIMARY**

**Record   RECORD,PRE()**

**CustNo    LONG**

**Name      STRING(30)**

**Phone     STRING(20)**

**ZIP       DECIMAL(5)**

**         END**

**         END**

**CustQ   QUEUE**

**CustNo   LONG**

**Name     STRING(30)**

**Phone    STRING(20)**

**ZIP      DECIMAL(5)**

**        END**

** CODE**

** Fields.Init                               !initialize FieldPairs object**

** Fields.AddPair(CUST:CustNo, CustQ.CustNo) !establish CustNo pair**

** Fields.AddPair(CUST:Name,  CustQ.Name)    !establish Name pair**

** Fields.AddPair(CUST:Phone, CustQ.Phone)   !establish Phone pair**

** Fields.AddPair(CUST:ZIP,  CustQ.ZIP)      !establish ZIP pair**

**See Also:**     [[init  initialize the fieldpairsclass object .htm|Init]], [[list  recognized field pairs .htm|List]]