Tracy,

You don't need macro substitution in this case.

getfield='prof_sc'
value1 = WORDHIDE(getfield)
?value1

>I want to dynamically send the value from a field to a function where the fieldname may change depending on different conditions. For instance, if the table is al3dict.dbf and the field value I want to pass is al3dict.prof_sc which contains the character string mdr_dob, I try:
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>*Original Code Works Correctly
>value1=WORDHIDE('prof_sc')
>?value1  && returns 'mdr_dob' which is value in prof_sc field in table
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>*New code using macro substitution does not work, why?
>getfield='prof_sc'
>value1 = WORDHIDE(&getfield)
>?value1
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>WORDHIDE should return the string 'mdr_dob' but in fact it doesn't appear that the wordhide program is running at all once I use macro substitution. I placed a 'set step on' in the top of the wordhide program and it never hits it. I have deleted all .bak and .fxp versions of the wordhide program to ensure that it could not be attempting to run an older version.
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>Any ideas?
>TIA!