Thanks, everyone, for the explanations! Makes sense now. Mike
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Friday, April 21, 2017 5:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Referring to a Column On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 10:00 PM, Michael Glassman <[email protected]> wrote: > Ted and Gianni, > > I'm not familiar with the double dots you both used. When is this > necessary? > > Mike > Use a dot to as a delimiter to specify the end of the macro expansion when you can't leave a space between the macro and the rest of the command, so: cTable ="Customer" &cTable.key && expands to "Tablekey" and fails, while &cTable..key && expands to "Table.key" likely what you want. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
