>>VFP 5.0 is not accepting the following code:
>>
>>

>>IF NOT EXISTS(SELECT c.guro_id FROM (this.cursor_name) c ;
>>WHERE c.guro_id = EVAL(cur+'.guro_id'))
>>

>>
>>this.cursor_name is the name of one cursor and cur is the name of another. VFP gives me the compile error 'Function name is missing )'.
>
>try using macro expansion instead of (this.cursorname)

Would you mind showing me how the code will look (I'm a little confused because of the '.cursor_name'.

Also, I was trying to follow the VFP 5.0 advice to use a name expression instead of a macro substitution when possible. Is this not a case where this is possible?