>>If I have a remote table with a field name of 1st2ndDeathBenefit. How do I select from that table by aliasing the field name into something fox understands. I have tried:
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>>Select "1st2ndDeathbeneft" as DeathBenefit
>>Select '1st2ndDeathbeneft' as DeathBenefit
>>Select (1st2ndDeathbeneft) as DeathBenefit
>>Select Eval(1st2ndDeathbeneft) as DeathBenefit
>>Select &1st2ndDeathbeneft as DeathBenefit
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>>all to no avail. Does anyine have any ideas?
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>>Ashley
>>AssureSoft Ltd
>well, your first two attempts will create a file with 1 field (DeathBenefit) with '1st2ndDeathbeneft' as the contents.
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>The third and fourth will send Fox looking for fieldnames of whatever is held in the variable '1st2ndDeathbeneft'.
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>Have you tried "Select 1st2ndDeathbeneft as DeathBenefit...."?

There's one trick that may work - I've been experimenting with a view which had an Excel sheet as underlying table. The sheet's columns had rather descriptive titles, and the view designer digested all the funny names using syntax like this:

Select table_alias."whatever the expression" as whatever_the_expression, table_alias."3rd expression" as _rd_expression...

so in this case, it would probably work as

Select whateveralias."1st2ndDeathbeneft" as DeathBenefit