MyTable="c:\temp\temp order by MyKey in 0 shared"

use &mytable && Works
but
use(mytable) && Error passed by reference don't work
But:
used to ..
MyTable="temp" && Opened with a use already
used to
select &MtTable && Old way in macro (still works)
now..
select(MyTable) && By Reference (works)


>>I think you're right about that. Apparently, with the parenthesis, it doesn't need any whitespace.
>
> This is interesting: I just did some experimenting, and the same goes for just quotes:

Select"myTable"

also works. Of course

Select(myTable)

doesn't work, because it expects myTable to be a variable.
>
>But USE has an interesting quirk:
>
>

use c:\temp\temp

works fine.
>

use("c:\temp\temp")

works fine.
>

use"c:\temp\temp"

works fine.
>
>here's where it gets interesting:
>
>

use(c:\temp\temp)

doesn't work. Actually I didn't expect it to, but it failed in a way that I didn't expect. With a straight tablename

use(temp)

of course it thinks temp is a variable, but with an full path it tries to open (in the current directory) a filename that includes the parenthesis and path!

< CurrentDirectory >\(c:\temp\temp).dbf