>>Any way to acheive the results of the "&varname" trick for complex variable refs without using the intermediate step?
>
>Nope. Not unless this works:
>
>SELECT fnames
>IMPORT FROM "&fname" XLS
Almost. Unfortunately IMPORT clobbers fnames as it does the import ... it doesn't support an IN 0 clause.
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