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>>>I've tried to run it on the filtered index on Lender table and got a message: code is not unique and must be qualified.
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>>>Here is lcWhere expression: where CODE#PARENTCODE.OR.PCOFLAG="P"
>>>Obviously, I want to insert a. before code, parentcode, pcoflag. How can I do this string manipulation?
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>>>BTW, just thought, that I should use at least two letters to aliases, but it doesn't change my question how to perform this string modification?
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>>Ok, I have an idea about last problem. Just do a loop on each field and perform strtran(str, fieldname, "a."+fieldname).
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>It's not gonna work. You'll get

a.CODE#PARENTa.CODE.OR.a.PCOFLAG="P"

He-he, I realized it before trying... Now the problem is to insert space before and after each symbol. Can you do it in one command or I should use a loop?
I'm writing this code right code and this is a part of the code: (though I may eliminate some symbols, which would not used in filter() anyway):
#define SYMBOLS ':;,./\<>+=-{}[]()!#*?'