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ALIAS()
Return a specified work area alias
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Syntax
ALIAS([<nWorkArea>]) --> cAlias
Arguments
<nWorkArea> is any work area number.
Returns
ALIAS() returns the alias of the specified work area as a character
string in uppercase. If <nWorkArea> is not specified, the alias of the
current work area is returned. If there is no database file in USE for
the specified work area, ALIAS() returns a null string ("").
Description
ALIAS() is a database function that determines the alias of a specified
work area. An alias is the name assigned to a work area when a database
file is USEd. The actual name assigned is either the name of the
database file, or a name explicitly assigned with the ALIAS clause of
the USE command.
ALIAS() is the inverse of the SELECT() function. ALIAS() returns the
alias name given the work area number, and SELECT() returns the work
area number given the alias name.
. This example returns the name of the previously selected work
area:
USE File1 NEW ALIAS Test1
nOldArea := SELECT()
USE File2 NEW ALIAS Test2
? ALIAS( nOldArea ) // Returns Test1
Files Library is CLIPPER.LIB.
See Also:
SELECT
SELECT()
USE
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