>>Is there a way to have the WriteExpression not add the equal sign (=)? The following strips out the controlsource info set by the VFP builder when I drag&drop columns from VFP tables. I remove the alias and store the column name to the cControlSource property. This works but it adds the = in front of the column name which I don't want. Any ideas?
>>
>>

>>LOCAL aControl[1]
>>IF ASELOBJ(aControl) = 0
>>  IF ASELOBJ(aControl, 1) = 0
>>    RETURN
>>  ENDIF
>>ENDIF
>>
>>FOR EACH loControl IN aControl[1].CONTROLS
>>  IF PEMSTATUS(loControl,'ControlSource',5)
>>    lnStart = AT('.',loControl.CONTROLSOURCE)+1
>>    lcSource = SUBSTR(loControl.CONTROLSOURCE,lnStart)
>>    loControl.WRITEEXPRESSION('cControlSource',lcSource)
>>    loControl.RESETTODEFAULT('ControlSource')
>>  ENDIF
>>ENDFOR
>>

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>If you use writeexpression() then it writes an 'expression' < g >.If you want a constant as you do then:
>
> loControl.cControlSource = m.lcSource
>
>PS: IMHO dropping the alias is not a good idea.
>Cetin

Yes of coarse - man what a foolish question. Maybe 30 hours is too long to be at a computer without sleep < g >.

The alias is added at runtime. Thanks!