>(Apologies in advance if this is a dumb post, I'm a totally new VFP programmer struggling to find resources for beginners!)
Both beginners and advanced questions are handled here; no need to apologize!
>Is there a way to dynamically assign names to tables at runtime? I want to do something like:
>
>SELECT someValue FROM someTable TO someVariable
>CREATE TABLE someVariable (fields go here etc)
Here, and in many similar situations, "name expressions" can be used:
CREATE TABLE (someVariable) Field1...
The parentheses will force VFP to evaluate the variable.
HTH,
Hilmar.
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