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Revision as of 04:46, 7 December 2012
Contents
Purpose
Function to return an alias name
Syntax
ALIAS([<expN>])
See Also
AUSED(), DBF(), SELECT, SELECT(), USE, WORKAREA()
Description
The ALIAS() function returns, as a character string in upper case, the alias name of the table in the currently selected workarea, or a null string if no table is active. The optional parameter <expN> can be used to specify the workarea number in which the ALIAS() function should operate.
Example
use demo ? alias() CUSTOMER ? alias(2) ACCOUNTS ? dbf() customer.rdb