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How to put a cursor name to variable
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craigsboyd
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lcVariable = "MyCursor"
...or...
lcVariable = Alias()
...then...
Select (lcVariable) &&There are lots of commands that will take the cursor name as a string
...or you can use macro substitution:
Replace &lcVariable..MyField with "Hello World"
...or in certain circumstances you can use Evaluate:
lcMyString = Evaluate(lcVariable + ".MyField")
...I would encourage you to read the help file or look at intellisense to see which commands can except the alias as a string (most will) and which ones need the literal name. In the latter case macro substitution provides what you need and in the former case you already have a variable that contains the name of your cursor so use it with parenthesis around it.
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...or...
lcVariable = Alias()
...then...
Select (lcVariable) &&There are lots of commands that will take the cursor name as a string
...or you can use macro substitution:
Replace &lcVariable..MyField with "Hello World"
...or in certain circumstances you can use Evaluate:
lcMyString = Evaluate(lcVariable + ".MyField")
...I would encourage you to read the help file or look at intellisense to see which commands can except the alias as a string (most will) and which ones need the literal name. In the latter case macro substitution provides what you need and in the former case you already have a variable that contains the name of your cursor so use it with parenthesis around it.
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