>Alejandro,
>sorry it took me so long to get back to you.
>Don´t want to put too much time into it, but we´re talking about three things here: macro substitution, Evaluate() and name expressions.
>
>Maybe I was wrong to have compared macros and Eval() and I should have rather said macros and name expressions.
>
>While you can use two or even three interchangeably in some situations, there are some very distinct usages.
>

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>* assign the 'pointer' value to the var ONLY POSSIBLE WITH MACRO
>* resulting in: tC12=1, tN31=2
>  &cTmp=m.nCntr2
snip
>

not true

store m.nCntr2 to (m.cTmp)

_VFP.Setvar(m.cTmp,m.nCntr2)