>>>Mixing dot notation and macro expansion or eval() always trips me up.
>>>In the "condition" field of the patient table is a logical expression that I want to evaluate to .T. or .F. Note: I need to refer to both the table and name since in my actual code there are two tables.
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>>>select patient.name from patient where eval(patient.condition)
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>>Give us a sample of the contents of the condition field.
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>I can be ".T."
>or it can an expression that evaluations to T/F such as "HepBStatus(id) = 2"

The first will work. The second won't unless HepBStatus is a program.