>Hi,
>how do I write the code for the following example in order to use name expression and to avoid macro substitution?
>
>I have the names of tables named like tablename1, tablename2 etc. The names are created by lcDbf="tablename"+ALLTRIM(STR(i)), where i is a number 1,2 etc. In each table I have a field named "cfield". the referenced field is stored in the variable lcField=lcDbf+".cfield". Further I have the following string in a form lcString="Thisform.Check"+ALLTRIM(STR(i))+".Caption"
>To set the caption I use &lcString=&lcDir, which works. I have tried to avoid macro substitution by doing the following:
>
>&lcString=(lcDir), does not work
>&lcString=EVALUATE(lcDir), works (but EVALUATE() is not a name expression?)
>(lcString)=EVALUATE(lcDir), generates the error "unrecognized command verb"
>EVALUATE(lcString))=EVALUATE(lcDir), generates the error "syntax error"
>
>In this case it looks like you can not entirely avoid macro substitution, or do you have any sugestion?

Others have given solutions on how to write it without macro substitution. So, it's possible. But IMO macro substitution is a very legitimate technique.