>>Hi,
>>
>>I need to change a hard-coded expression into a variable (stored in the app object). The expression has a variable - name of the alias - which may change in different parts of the app. Here is an example (close to actual case):
>>
>>Right now, hard coded:
>>

>>nQty = EVALUATE(tcAliasName + ".INSTOCK") + EVALUATE(tcAliasName + ".ONORDER") - EVALUATE(tcAliasName 
>>+ ".REORDERPNT")
>>

>>
>>If I place the entire hard-coded expression to a variable, as:
>>

>>cExpr = 'EVALUATE(tcAliasName + ".INSTOCK") + EVALUATE(tcAliasName + ".ONORDER") - EVALUATE(tcAliasName  + ".REORDERPNT")'
>>

>>
>>Will the above work as?
>>

>>nQty = EVALUATE( cExpr ) 
>>*-- or
>>nQty = &cExpr.
>>

>>
>>TIA
>
>

>TEXT TO cExpr NOSHOW TEXTMERGE PRETEXT 15
>     <<tcAliasName>>.INSTOCK +
>     <<tcAliasName>>.ONORDER -
>     <<tcAliasName>>.REORDERPNT
>ENDTEXT
>
>nQty = EVALUATE( cExpr ) 
>

First, thank you. Your approach should work and should be my solution. But I have changed the TEXT TO ENDTEXT to a string (because I will store it in the app object). So in my case I have

 cExpr = "<<tcAliasName>>.INSTOCK + <<tcAliasName>>.ONORDER - <<tcAliasName>>.REORDERPNT"
nQty = EVALUATE( cExpr ) 

But I get error Missing Operand. I must be doing something wrong. I will keep checking my syntax.

UPDATE. The error is actually Missing Expression, not Operand.