To get a field pointer to a field from the field name you can loop through the
table incrementing the field number until you find the correct name and return
a pointer to it, this is very fast since it is all in memory.
For ($i;1;Get last field number($TableNumber))
If (Is field number valid($TableNumber;$i))
If (Field name($TableNumber;$i)=$TestFieldName)
$PointerToField:=Field($TableNumber;$i)
$i:=Get last field number
End if
End if
End for
If you use this a lot you can use a cache array to store the pointers and field
names, but like I said this runs very fast.
Neil
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