>>you shouldn't have to evaluate this...
>>STORE variablecontainingname TO myvar should work.
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>But what I think he is talking about is STORing the contents of the variable referred to in variablecontainingname TO myvar.
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>So for example:
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>var1= "john" &&/ referenced variable
>vcn= "var1" &&/ this is variablecontainingname
>STORE EVAL(vcn) TO var2
>? var2
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>Try it. I just did and it works (using FPW 2.6a).
>STORE (vcn) TO var2 &&/ this does not work, var2 then will contain "var1" instead of its contents.
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>HTH

if that's the case, then use eval(). my only question would be why store a variable name in another variable? there has to be an easier way...