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Cannot change cursor column name
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Visual FoxPro
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Thread ID:
01646543
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>UPDATE. I found the cause of the problem. When the column name is greater than 10 characters, you cannot change it. Strange though that VFP allows creating a cursor with a column with the name greater than 10 char, but won't allow to change the name.
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>Hi,
>
>I want to change a cursor column name. When I do it in the Command window, it works. Here is the code:
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>cCursorName = "MyCursor"
>cFieldFrom = "FieldName1"
>cFieldTo = "FieldName2"
>alter table (cCursorName) rename (cFieldFrom) to (cFieldTo)
>
>So the above works without a problem in the Command window.
>
>But when I have pretty much the same code in the .PRG of the program, I get error:
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>Error 1115
>Invalid Operation for the Cursor
>
>
>Could someone explain why? TIA

How did you create the cursor?
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