>Kludgy way to avoid replacment is to use EVALUATE() or macro expansion -- since these are executed at runtime and not during compile into pcode.
>
>cFieldName = "SOMESTRING"
>x = THISFORM.&cFieldName..Value
>
>cExpr = "THISFORM.SOMESTRING.Value"
>x = EVALUATE(cExpr)

Try

lcFieldName = [SOMESTRING]
x = THISFORM.&lcFieldName..Value

lcExpr = [THISFORM.SOMESTRING.Value]
x = EVALUATE(lcExpr)

^.^

Agnes