Soren - Your print statement is trying to do some addition because the alias returns a column value - you need to tell MI that you're working with strings.
Try casting the alias to a string (the Str$() function) - OR - using ampersands instead of plus signs - OR store the alias value as a string variable too when you set it up. Eg Print "Altering " & Column_alias & " before analyzing." Paul Crisp Syntegra Direct: 0191 461 4522 Mobile: 0776 414 3762 Fax: (0191) 461 1959 Innovation Place Metro Riverside Park Delta Bank Road Gateshead Tyne & Wear NE11 9DJ -----Original Message----- From: S�ren Breddam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 02 May 2002 09:39 To: MapInfo-L (E-mail) Subject: MI-L How to print a column alias? Dear list, I have a table with about 100 char columns that I loop through. I make a selection and an update and then I modify the columns to smallint. This works fine. However, I want to let the user know, that the column has changed and that the program is still altering the table. I would like to do that with : Print "Altering "+Column_alias+" before analyzing." This doesn't work. What do I do? Regards S�ren Breddam Teknisk Forvaltning Stevns Kommune Tlf. +45 5656 1891 --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ******************************************************************** This email may contain information which is privileged or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient of this email, please notify the sender immediately and delete it without reading, copying, storing, forwarding or disclosing its contents to any other person Thank you Check us out at http://www.syntegra.com ********************************************************************
