Situation:
I am storing an expression to be evaluated in a table:

gFile.State = "CA"

gFile being a custom typed global structure

I store this expression in a table to be evaluated to determine if a
specific form should print (many forms are being considered for
printing)

Problem:
I am trying to use the Eval function to determine if the global
variable  gFile.State is equal to the string "CA". If I type
Eval(gFile.State = "CA") in the debug wimdow the code is evaluated
properly. When I loan the string "gFile.State = 'CA'" into a local
module variable (tVar) and then Eval(tVar) I get an error on gFile due
to the "." period in the expression for the type variable. The tVar
indeed holds "gFile.State = 'CA'"

Is there a problem using Eval with global variable or typed variables?
Has anyone tried this and have a workaround?

I have a workable solution but it is code intensive, any help will be
appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Frank Tuttle

Frank

Try using the following format to store in table for setting tVar prior to
using Eval function:

tVar = cstr(chr(39) & gFile.state & chr(39) & " = 'CA'")

Hope this helps

Joyce
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