lcDir holds reference to a field ("tablename"+alltrim(str(i))+".cfield"). He wants the value in cfield not 'tablenameN.cfield'
Cetin
>I don't see, why it didn't. What is lcDir again?
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>I just ran this test at command window:
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>lcDir = '5'
>lcTemp = "temp"
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>store m.lcDir to (m.lcTemp)
>?temp
>?type('temp')
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>Worked fine for me.
>
>>Sorry, but your sugestion did not work. However, if you do like this
>>store &lcDir to (m.lcString) or store EVALUATE(lcDir) to (m.lcString), it works. Now, there is no macrosubstitution any longer but how to write the code with only name expressions, i.e. without EVALUATE().