>I am working with EDI and FoxPro, and was wondering what the .command does? i am importing an invoice and this line is placed in the code where the program interprets the EDI rawdata into an invoice in SBT. the name of my table alias is x_poindict and the line is written like this:
>lc_string = ALLTRIM((x_poindict.command))
>where lc_string is just a variable. any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

Hi Erin,

In this case, the "." is a separator between the table name/alias (x_poindict) and a field name in that table/alias (command).

Check the structure of the x_poindict table or view for a field called COMMAND. The value of that field will be stored in lc_string, trimmed of blanks on both ends (the ALLTRIM).

HTH.