Steve,

I've just made this simple test:

lcTableName="ndmsdhwekdhwkdjkwjdwk"
create table (lcTableName) free (cFld C(25))

Be sure, your lcTableName doesn't start from digit and doesn't contain "prohibit" characters, like ., for example, or ?!-+.

IOW, just put your variable in () and you would be fine.

>Weird, this works.
>
>

>cResult='astringwith45chars'
>
>cTableName ='PRM1'+cResult
>cTableString = ;
>'create table '+cTableName+' ( '
>cTableString = cTableString+' nEmpID n(16,0) , '
>cTableString = cTableString+' cLastname c(64) ,  '
>cTableString = cTableString+' cFirstName c(64) , ' 		
>cTableString = cTableString+' tHireDate t(8) , '
>cTableString = cTableString+' cIsTerm c(32) , '
>cTableString = cTableString+' cNTName c(32) '
>cTableString = cTableString+' )'		
>? cTableString
>&cTableString
>

>
>But now I am stuck in macro substituion land.
>
>How do I get out of that?