Read Rick's article on the subject;

http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/256.aspx

~~Bonnie



>Without writing a class to handle it is there an equivalent to the EVALUATE() to evaluate expressions. We store user column captions in meta data and some need to be run through EVAL() before they make sense.
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>While I am at is the there one in T-SQL without writing a UDF or sproc to do it.
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>Thanks.