>The following code sequence will work fine
>

>lcRawData = addbs(fileloc) + "surveys/RawData2005"
>rawdata = 'RawData2005'
>lcPermID = '20011'
>lcJoincondition = 'Companyinfo.company = RawData2005.company'
>
>SELECT Companyinfo.*, (lcRawData + '.*');
> FROM ;
>     COMPANYINFO ;
>    INNER JOIN (lcRAWDATA) ;
>   on Companyinfo.company = RawData2005.company ;
> WHERE  Companyinfo.permid = ( "20011" )
>

>
>but this one will not
>
>

>lcRawData = addbs(fileloc) + "surveys/RawData2005"
>rawdata = 'RawData2005'
>lcPermID = '20011'
>lcJoincondition = 'Companyinfo.company = RawData2005.company'
>
>SELECT Companyinfo.*, (lcRawData + '.*');
> FROM ;
>     COMPANYINFO ;
>    INNER JOIN (lcRAWDATA) ;
>   on Companyinfo.company = (lcRawData + '.company') ;
> WHERE  Companyinfo.permid = ( "20011" )
>

>
>The construct fails with the indirect pointer in the 'ON' statement. I've tried every combination of (), "", and & that I can think of but can't seem to make it work. The query will run without error but it doesn't find any records. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Don,
Use evaluate() or &.

A better one (w/o evaluate):

SELECT * ;
 FROM ;
     COMPANYINFO t1 ;
    INNER JOIN (m.lcRAWDATA) t2 ;
   on t1.company = t2.company ;
 WHERE  t1.permid = ( "20011" )

Cetin