>>From VFP 7 help:
>>
>>Each Order_Item must correspond to a column in the query results and can be one of the following:
>>...
>>A numeric expression indicating the location of the column in the result table.
>>
>>However, the following program causes error
>>
>>SQL: Column 'NORDER' is not found.
>>
>>How to use expressions in ORDER BY clause ?
>>
>>

>>norder = 1
>>CREATE CURSOR test ( test c(1) )
>>SELECT * from test ORDER BY (norder)
>>

>
>SELECT * from test ORDER BY norder

This causes the same error !!!

PRIVATE norder
norder = 1
CREATE CURSOR test ( test c(1) )
SELECT * from test ORDER BY norder