If this is just a string that you are retrieving from a table, you could put a placeholder in the string, then use STRTRAN to replace the placeholder with the alias.
lcStr = 'where ALIAS.CODE # ALIAS.PARENTCODE .OR. ALIAS.PCOFLAG = "P"'
>Hi everyone,
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>I have some expression, which is either filter() or for() or combination of both. I'd like to insert Alias Lnd1 before each field, which may be in this expression. Example:
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lcStr=where CODE#PARENTCODE.OR.PCOFLAG="P"
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>I need to convert it to 'where lnd1.code#lnd1.parentcode OR lnd1.PCOFLAG="P"'
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>I was thinking about checking this string against each field and do simple strtran, but it would not work, since I have fieldnames, which are part of other field names.
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>Could you please help me?
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>Thanks in advance.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA