It was not clear from the post. In the last case he should use evaluate, as Sergey showed.

>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?
>>
>>I just ran this test at command window:
>>

>>lcDir = '5'
>>lcTemp = "temp"
>>
>>store m.lcDir to (m.lcTemp)
>>?temp
>>?type('temp')

>>
>>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().