Yeah...made no sense for my specific purpose.

>Did you check http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/256.aspx ?
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>>OK, for some reason this is tough for me.
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>>I have a table in SQL Server that stores paramters and the control source of those parameters.
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>>For one row, the column name is ReportParmValue and it contains "GridView1.SelectedValue". This is represented in the code as
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>>Dim cRPV As String = dtResult.Rows(0).Item("ReportParmValue")
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>>cRPV will now contain "GridView1.SelectedValue".
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>>My problem is that I want the value of the form control GridView1.SelectedValue (which should be a string) and not the string "GridView1.SelectedValue".
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>>The VFP equivalent would be something like
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>>x = (cRPV) ..or.. x = EVALUATE(cRPV)
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>>Any ideas? Thanks.