>>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
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>> cExpr = "<<tcAliasName>>.INSTOCK + <<tcAliasName>>.ONORDER - <<tcAliasName>>.REORDERPNT"
>>nQty = EVALUATE( cExpr )
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>>But I get error Missing Operand. I must be doing something wrong. I will keep checking my syntax.
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>>UPDATE. The error is actually Missing Expression, not Operand.
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> cExpr =textmerge( "<< m.tcAliasName >>.INSTOCK + << m.tcAliasName >>.ONORDER - << m.tcAliasName >>.REORDERPNT")
> nQty = EVALUATE( m.cExpr )
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>Or without merging (merging is nice BTW):
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> cExpr = m.tcAliasName + ".INSTOCK + " + m.tcAliasName + ".ONORDER - " + m.tcAliasName +".REORDERPNT"
> nQty = EVALUATE( m.cExpr )
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>(Without text merging it is a bit obscure using operands)
Thank you, Cetin. I ended up using the Textmerge() approach because I need to save the entire string to an XML file. That is, for different customers the expression may be different.
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