>I am having trouble with an application. I am populating a variable lcReprTable with the result of a choice from a list box (lcNetworkName)
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>lcReprTable = 'Repr' + alltrim(lcNetworkName)
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>This is referencing me to the table that I want to do testing with. I am using
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>AFIELDS(laReprStructure,lcReprTable)
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>to step through the fields of the table. I then use
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>lcTemp = laReprStructure(lnCount,1)
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>to grab the field name. I need to check that the data within the lcTemp field is of numeric type. Otherwise, I need to halt the application. I have tried
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>if type('lctemp') <> 'N'
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>but that always returns a false as lcTemp is the field name not the data within the field.
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>Can someone help me out here? I know that this is simple but I'm just spinning my wheels here.
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>TIA

Try:

? VARTYPE(EVALUATE("alias.fieldname"))