>I curious whether or not it is possible to access a table by using some sort of column number rather than having to use the column name.
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>example : tablename.columnname[3] to access the third column in the table.
Look at FIELD(). You can do some things with macros like:
x = 'tablename.' + field(1)
? &x
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