It's a bad idea to use workarea numbers. You should use workarea aliases instead.

>I wanted to add a workspace list into my main.h header file
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>example:
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>_MAINTABLE1 3
>_MAINTABLE2 7
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>then in the program I want to include the header file and select the workspace number by using the header file, example:
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>Select _MAINTABLE1 &&& to use workspace 3 for the table
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>I always get errors when I try to use the header variables in the select command trying it different ways.
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>Is it possible to use these in a select command? If so, what is the proper syntax for it?